{"id":2124153,"date":"2025-10-30T05:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2124153"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:22:23","slug":"fresh-prince-of-bel-air-actor-dies-of-heart-attack-floyd-roger-myers-jr-was-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fresh-prince-of-bel-air-actor-dies-of-heart-attack-floyd-roger-myers-jr-was-42\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ Actor Dies of Heart Attack: Floyd Roger Myers Jr. Was 42"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former child actor Floyd Roger Myers Jr. has died. He was 42.<\/p>\n

The actor, best known for playing a young Will Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air<\/em>, died early Wednesday morning from a heart attack at his home in Maryland. <\/p>\n

His mother, Renee Trice, told TMZ that he suffered three heart attacks in the last three years, and that they had just spoken last night.<\/p>\n

Myers got his acting start as a young Will Smith in a season three episode of Fresh Prince<\/em> that aired in 1992. Later on, he starred as a young Marlon Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream<\/em>, a TV biopic about the famous musical family. He also appeared in The WB\u2019s Young Americans in 2000.<\/p>\n

According to the GoFundMe <\/a>set up by his sister to cover funeral expenses, Myers had four kids.<\/p>\n

His mother Renee posted a tribute to him on Facebook this Wednesday, with a photo of him and his four kids and the caption \u201cTHIS NOT SUPPOSE TO BE SO\u201d along with the GoFundMe attached.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoger leaves behind his four beautiful children\u2014Taelyn, Kinsley, Tyler, and Knox\u2014and our loving family is now facing the unimaginable loss of someone who meant everything to us,\u201d the GoFundMe<\/a> reads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source popculture.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former child actor Floyd Roger Myers Jr. has died. He was 42. The actor, best known for playing a young Will Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, died early Wednesday morning from a heart attack at his home in Maryland. His mother, Renee Trice, told TMZ that he suffered three heart attacks in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2124154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,403433,380028],"class_list":["post-2124153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-floyd-roger-myers-jr","tag-fresh-prince-of-bel-air"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Fresh-Prince-of-Bel-Air-Actor-Dies-of-Heart-Attack-Floyd.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124155,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124153\/revisions\/2124155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}