Madge Sinclair

Madge Dorita Sinclair ( born April 28, 1938 in Kingston, Jamaica, † December 20, 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an American film and theater actress.

Biography

Sinclair was a drama student who put her career back after graduating from drama school, because they are already married early Jamaican police Royston Sinclair. She worked for many years as a teacher and got in the course of time two sons of Sinclair. In 1968, she left her family and moved to New York City to fulfill her dream of acting there. In 1969 the divorce.

To be able to keep financially afloat, Sinclair worked as a model and later joined the New York Shakespearean Festival. Despite the limitations, the black actors had in the late 1960s and early 1970s, succeeded Sinclair, also in Joseph Papp Theatre and the Brooklyn Academy of Music perform.

In 1972, she stood as a leading actress of the 35 - minute short film The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope for the first time on camera. Her most famous films included the mini-series Roots in 1977, the road movie Convoy of 1978 and 1988 produced comedy film Coming to America.

These is also the science fiction classic Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where Sinclair 1986 with the captain of the USS Saratoga embodied the first female captain in the Star Trek story.

Madge Sinclair found in the actor Dean Compton her second husband, she married him on 18 August 1982.

In the early 1980s, she was diagnosed with leukemia, a disease from which she died at the age of 57 in 1995.

Filmography

Movies

TV series

Synchronization

Awards

• Five Emmy nominations, once awarded