{"id":2125113,"date":"2025-10-30T16:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2125113"},"modified":"2025-10-30T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:55:13","slug":"floyd-roger-myers-jr-who-played-young-will-smith-on-fresh-prince-of-bel-air-dies-at-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/floyd-roger-myers-jr-who-played-young-will-smith-on-fresh-prince-of-bel-air-dies-at-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Roger Myers Jr., Who Played Young Will Smith on \u2018Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,\u2019 Dies at 42"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Floyd Roger Myers Jr.<\/a>, who played a younger version of Will Smith<\/a> on \u201cThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Air<\/a>,\u201d died Wednesday. He was 42.<\/p>\n

His mother, Renee Trice, told TMZ that Myers<\/a> had a heart attack at his home in Maryland, and that the actor had a history of cardiac issues.<\/p>\n

Myers was 9 years old when he appeared in the Season 3 episode of \u201cFresh Prince<\/a>\u201d titled \u201cWill Gets Committed,\u201d which aired in September 1992. The episode features a flashback to the 1970s, with Myers portraying a child version of Will Smith.<\/p>\n

That same year, Myers played a young Marlon Jackson<\/a> in both episodes…<\/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 www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Floyd Roger Myers Jr., who played a younger version of Will Smith on \u201cThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,\u201d died Wednesday. He was 42. His mother, Renee Trice, told TMZ that Myers had a heart attack at his home in Maryland, and that the actor had a history of cardiac issues. Myers was 9 years old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2125114,"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":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2125113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Floyd-Roger-Myers-Jr-Who-Played-Young-Will-Smith-on.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125113","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=2125113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125115,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125113\/revisions\/2125115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2125114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}