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Dean Compton is known as an American actor. He is most famous for being the former husband of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">actress</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">Madge Sinclair</a>, who passed away during their marriage.

<h2>Marriage, Wife, and Children</h2>

Dean was married to a fellow actor named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">Madge Sinclair</a>. The loving couple decided to tie the knot and get married in 1982. Unfortunately, their marriage came to an end after 13 years when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">Madge</a> passed away in 1995, leaving Dean with a broken heart.

Dean and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">Madge</a> had an interracial marriage during a time when such a pairing was not widely accepted. Dean did not care about the potential backlash he might face from society for falling in love with a black woman. He saw beauty in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">Madge</a> and was willing to accept any consequence for dating outside of his race.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">Madge</a> left behind a notable acting career that was marked with strong roles for an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans">African American</a> woman. Some of her most known films were Coming to America, <a href="/biography/james-earl-jones">Earl</a> and ME and Cornbread. Coming to America was a huge hit because the lead actor was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Murphy">comedian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Murphy">Eddie Murphy</a>. At the time of the movie’s release, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Murphy">Eddie</a> was riding a huge wave of popularity from his stand up comedy specials. He was getting a lot of mainstream attention and also drawing some jealous eyes. It was reported that <a href="/biography/bill-cosby">Bill Cosby</a> criticized <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Murphy">Eddie</a> for his vulgar style and immature behavior. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pryor">Richard Pryor</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pryor">comedy legend</a> came to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Murphy">Eddie</a>’s defense and told <a href="/biography/bill-cosby">Bill Cosby</a> to shut up.

Even though <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">Madge</a> was happy to be in one of the films that launched <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Murphy">Eddie Murphy</a> into being a superstar, her biggest role was a part she played in the ABC TV Miniseries called Roots. The miniseries was about black slavery and the struggles that came with that sad time period of America. It was a controversial series because it did not try to sugarcoat the plight of African slaves. It was raw and tried to educate the American public about the pain and suffering that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans">Africans</a> endured during their introduction to America. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">Madge</a> was proud to be part of the project because it was a milestone for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans">African American</a> actors. Instead of being portrayed as the villain or the uneducated comic relief, they finally got to play roles that had deep emotions and character development.

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One of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">Madge</a>’s roles that is lesser-known but is still iconic is her involvement in the Disney classic, The Lion King. Not too many members of the public or film press know that she was in the movie because of the nature of voice acting. Without a face to put to the role, it is hard to remember who played the voice of a cartoon. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">Madge</a> was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">voice actress</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarabi">Sarabi</a> who was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">lioness</a> and mother of the lead <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simba">character</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simba">Simba</a>. She was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">counterpart</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simba">Simba</a>’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mufasa">father</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mufasa">Mufasa</a> who was voiced by legendary actor, <a href="/biography/james-earl-jones">James Earl Jones</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">Madge</a> had worked with <a href="/biography/james-earl-jones">James Earl Jones</a> previously in Coming to America. The two continued to have dynamic chemistry even though their first film together was live action and their second film together was an animation. The cartoon took place in the lands of Africa. The producers at Disney felt <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">Madge</a> would be great for the role because of her Jamaican roots.

After thirteen great years of being married to Dean, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">Madge</a> died in 1995 because of leukemia. Dean had her remains cremated. At the time of her death, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Sinclair">Madge</a> had a net worth of 5 million dollars.

<h2>Career</h2>

Dean Compton's most famous roles were in Paintbrushes Don't Have Erasers released in 2004 and Bed of Dreams, released in 2008.

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