Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Malcolm-Jamal Warner is an American actor, musician, director, producer, writer and consultant. He is best known for his roles as Theo Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show and as Malcolm McGee on the UPN sitcom Malcolm & Eddie. He also starred as Dr. Alex Reed in the sitcom Reed Between the Lines...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth18 August 1970
CityJersey City, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.
Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.
In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.
People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.
I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values.
But theres a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like The Cosby Show that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.