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Madge Sinclair was born Madge Dorita Walters on April 28, 1938 in Kingston, Jamaica, married young and had two sons. Madge worked as a teacher in Jamaica until she was 30. She left her two boys with their father and moved in 1968 to New York City to be an actress.



She began modeling and later acted with the New York Shakespearean Festival and at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre. In 1974, Madge made her film debut, playing Mrs. Scott in Abschied von einer Insel (1974). She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance as Bell Reynolds in the miniseries Roots (1977).



In 1982, shortly after joining the cast of Trapper John, M.D. (1979), Sinclair was diagnosed with leukemia. She continued to work, outliving the doctors' predictions by several years. On December 20, 1995, Madge Sinclair died at age 57 in Los Angeles, California, after a 13 year battle with leukemia.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Kelly E.F. Wiebe (senhue@mts.net

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Sinclair, having died in 1995 at Los Angeles' Good Samaritan Hospital following a 13 year battle with leukemia, could not reprise her role as Queen Sarabi in Der König der Löwen 2: Simbas Königreich (1998). The directors felt that replacing her voice could be seen as disrespectful and inappropriate. Sinclair was survived by her first husband, Dean Compton; her two sons; her mother; and her sister.



Although she played Leslie Uggams ' mother in Roots (1977), she was only five years her senior in real life.



Is one of only 32 actors and actresses to have starred in both the original Raumschiff Enterprise (1966) (up to and including Star Trek VI: Das unentdeckte Land (1991)) and then in one of the spin-offs.

She had two sons with her first husband Royston Sinclair: Wayne and Garry Sinclair.

