# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/madge-sinclair
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:45:59.072Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/madge-sinclair"
name: "Madge Sinclair"
slug: "madge-sinclair"
description: "Madge Dorita Sinclair CD was a Jamaican actress best known for her roles in Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975), Convoy (1978), Coming to America (1988), Trapper John, M.D. (1980–1986), and the ABC TV miniseries Roots (1977). Sinclair also voiced the character of Sarabi, Mufasa's mate and Simba's mother, in the Disney animated feature film The Lion King (1994). A five-time Emmy Award nominee, Sinclair won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as \"Empress\" Josephine in Gabriel's Fire in 1991."
tagline: "Jamaican actress (1938–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Madge_Sinclair_in_Boesman_and_Lena.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1938-04-28"
deathDate: "1995-12-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump