Floyd Roger Myers, Jr., an actor known for his appearances in
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and
The Jacksons: An American Dream, has died. He was 42.
The actor died of a heart attack in his Maryland home early Wednesday morning, Oct. 29, his mother, Renee Trice told
TMZ. Trice shared that she last spoke to her son just hours before he died.
Myers had previously experienced three heart attacks in the last three years, Trice told the outlet.
Throughout his
years as a child star, Myers first appeared as a young
Will Smith in a season 3 episode of
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air that aired in 1992. Later that year, he starred as a young Marlon Jackson in
The Jacksons: An American Dream, a TV movie about the famous Jackson family's rise to musical stardom.
Myers also appeared in an episode of The WB's
Young Americans in 2000.
