ACTOR

Madge Sinclair

1938 - 1995

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Madge Dorita Sinclair CD (née Walters; April 28, 1938 – December 20, 1995) 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Madge Sinclair has received more than 2,786,882 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Madge Sinclair is the 2,999th most popular actor (down from 2,284th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Jamaica (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Jamaican Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Madge Sinclairs by language

Over the past year Madge Sinclair has had the most page views in the with 192,115 views, followed by German (18,228), and Russian (9,178). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (192.20%), Galician (120.09%), and Dutch (50.63%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Madge Sinclair ranks 2,999 out of 13,578. Before her are Paul Adelstein, Philip Stone, John Carroll Lynch, Corinna Harfouch, Chris Farley, and Norma Bengell. After her are Gael García Bernal, Roger Carel, Michael V. Gazzo, Aidan Quinn, Freddie Highmore, and Patricia Velásquez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Madge Sinclair ranks 271. Before her are Barry Dennen, Enzo G. Castellari, Sanjeev Kumar, Marinella, Barry Jackson, and Emile Griffith. After her are Peter Snell, Severino Reija, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Shuji Tsurumi, Anna Wierzbicka, and Holger Czukay. Among people deceased in 1995, Madge Sinclair ranks 162. Before her are Eva Gabor, Mickey Mantle, Eric Porter, Katarina Taikon, Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, and Koloman Gögh. After her are Michael V. Gazzo, Bryan Johnson, Bojan Adamič, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Khalid Bakdash, and Georges Candilis.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Madge Sinclair ranks 20 out of 189. Before her are Lee "Scratch" Perry (1936), Patrick Ewing (1962), Desmond Dekker (1941), Stephen Hopkins (1958), Asafa Powell (1982), and Burning Spear (1945). After her are Sean Paul (1973), Bunny Wailer (1947), Max Romeo (1944), DJ Kool Herc (1955), Patrick Allen (1951), and Martine Beswick (1941).

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Among ACTORS In Jamaica

Among actors born in Jamaica, Madge Sinclair ranks 1. After her are Martine Beswick (1941), Roger Cross (1969), and Lyriq Bent (1979).

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Television and Movie Roles

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.
Jun 29o 19886.877 / 10
The Lion King
Sarabi (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?
Jun 24o 19948.256 / 10
Roots
Bell Reynolds
The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama covers a period of history that begins in mid-1700s Gambia, West Africa and concludes during post-Civil War United States, over 100 years later. This 1977 miniseries eventually won 9 Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, and a Peabody award, and still stands as the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.
7.393 / 10