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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Madge Dorita
Sinclair was a Jamaican American character actress. Sinclair was born
Madge Dorita Walters in Kingston, Jamaica, to Herbert and Jemima
Walters. She was a teacher in Jamaica until 1968 when she left for New
York to pursue her career in acting. In 1978, she starred in the film
Convoy as the Widow Maker. She played Leona Hamiltons in Cornbread, Earl
and Me. She would later receive an Emmy Award nomination for her role as
Belle in the miniseries Roots. She went on to a long-running stint in
the 1980s as nurse Ernestine Shoop on the series Trapper John, M.D.
opposite Pernell Roberts. She received three Emmy nominations for her
work on the show, and critic Donald Bogle praised her for "maintaining
her composure and assurance no matter what the script imposed on her."
