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Winsome Sinclair Dies: Veteran Casting Pro On ‘The Best Man’, ‘Amistad’ & A Dozen Spike Lee Films Was 58
Winsome Sinclair, a casting professional who worked on scores of films and TV shows including many Spike Lee movies, died August 12 of colon cancer at 58.
“It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Winsome Sinclair, a woman of extraordinary faith and a trailblazer in the film industry,” her family said in a statement (read it in full below). Sinclair’s many other credits include John Singleton’s Higher Learning, 2 Fast 2 Furious and Abduction and Malcom D. Lee’s The Best Man(1999) and Barbershop: The Next Cut. Other films on which she served in the casting department include Spielberg’s Amistad, Lee Daniels’ Precious, Forest Whitaker’s Waiting to Exhale and the Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me.
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