Karen Malina White played Charmaine Brown, friend to Cosby cousin Pam (Erika Alexander) on both The Cosby Show and its spinoff series, A Different World. White also dated Warner for seven years, beginning in the late 1990s.

Following the tragic death of actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, tributes have poured in from all over Hollywood and beyond, as his loved ones and those he touched with one of his performances remember the man.

There’s sad news to report. Malcolm-Jamal Warner, TV icon and star of "The Cosby Show," has reportedly died at 54.

"Malcolm was doing what he loved when he died — he was with his family," Andrew Wyatt, a spokesperson for Bill Cosby, tells PEOPLE

The actors were both teenagers when they starred on the show together, with Sandler playing Smitty alongside Warner’s Theodore Huxtable