Madge Sinclair

Madge Sinclair

Birth : 1938-04-28, St. Ann, Jamaica W.I.

Death : 1995-12-20

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Madge Dorita Sinclair (28 April 1938 – 20 December 1995) was a Jamaican American character actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Madge Sinclair, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Madge Sinclair

Movies

The Lion King
Sarabi, Simba's Mother (voice)
A young lion prince is cast out of his pride by his cruel uncle, who claims he killed his father. While the uncle rules with an iron paw, the prince grows up beyond the Savannah, living by a philosophy: No worries for the rest of your days. But when his past comes to haunt him, the young prince must decide his fate: Will he remain an outcast or face his demons and become what he needs to be?
The Man with Three Wives
Margaret
A married doctor marries two other women and juggles a life with three wives.
The End of Innocence
Nurse Bowlin
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Coming to America
Queen Aoleon
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Saratoga Captain (uncredited)
It's the 23rd century, and a mysterious alien power is threatening Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere. In a frantic attempt to save mankind, Kirk and his crew must time travel back to 1986 San Francisco where they find a world of punk, pizza and exact-change buses that are as alien as anything they've ever encountered in the far reaches of the galaxy. A thrilling, action-packed Star Trek adventure!
Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia
Miss Tomas
13-year-old boy has problems reading, which his teachers attribute to laziness. It is later discovered that he has Dyslexia.
Jimmy B. & Andre
Andre's Mother
Real-life story detailing the relationship between a popular Detroit restaurant owner and a young black youngster whom he tries to adopt.
High Ice
Dr. Pittman
A grizzled veteran forest ranger finds himself in conflict with a decisive but impatient Army Search and Rescue officer who does not want to share command of an operation to rescue several stranded weekend climbers from a mountain ledge.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Miss Flowers
Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
Georgia LeFlore
The true story of baseball star Ron LeFlore, from his days as a street-corner punk with no future to his days behind bars on a petty robbery conviction to his ultimate once-in-a-lifetime chance with the Detroit Tigers, where he became an outstanding baseball player.
Convoy
Widow Woman
Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But conniving Sheriff Wallace is hip to the truckers' tactics, and begins tricking the drivers through his own CB broadcasts. Facing constant harassment from the law, Rubber Duck and his pals use their radios to coordinate a vast convoy and rule the road.
Uncle Joe Shannon
Margaret
A trumpet player, self-destructive after the death of his wife and child in a fire, befriends a crippled youngster and together they battle obstacles through each other's encouragement.
Leadbelly
Miss Eula
The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.
Almos' a Man
Essie
Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930's, this 15 year-olds problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. "Almos' A Man", yet still treated like a child, he struggles for an identity. There's one thing, one symbol of manhood, Dave thinks, that could guarantee him instant respect: a gun.
I Will, I Will...For Now
Dr. Williams
Les Bingham takes umbrage that his ex-wife Katie has a new love in life. What he doesn't know is that her new paramour is lawyer Lou Springer. When Katie's sister Sally arrives and tells the two about her new, hip '70s marriage contract, Les and Katie decide to try to get together again under a more liberal marriage contract, like Katie's sister. But, unfortunately for the couple, the contract is planted with the seeds of self-destruction.
Conrack
Mrs. Scott
A young, white teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
I Love You... Goodbye
Salesgirl
A suburban wife begins to resent the pressures she sees society putting on her as a wife and mother, and leaves her family to find the meaning of her life.
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
Tituba
A bizarre series of events focused on young women in the village of Salem causes paranoia in the late 1600s. It ends with the lynching of the accused and subsequent releases from jail. Dark and gritty, but not frightening.