Gloria Foster
Born in Chicago, Illinois, USA — Nov 15 1933• Died Sep 29 2001
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Biography
Gloria Foster (November 15, 1933 – September 29, 2001) was an American actress, most known for her stage performances both on and off Broadway, including her acclaimed roles in plays In White America and Having Our Say, winning three Obie Awards during her career. In films, she was perhaps best known as the Oracle in The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003), the latter film being her last. Gloria Foster also played the role of the mother of Yusef Bell in the mini series The Atlanta Child Murders which aired in 1985.
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Gloria Foster's Credits
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Law & Order
Satima Tate
The Cosby Show
Dr. Barbara Bracy
The Matrix
Oracle
The Mod Squad
The Matrix Reloaded
The Oracle
The Bill Cosby Show
Dolores Winters
The Matrix Resurrections
Oracle (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Outcasts
Soul Food
Ella Lester
The Atlanta Child Murders
Camille Bell
Separate but Equal
Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
Leonard Part 6
Medusa
Man and Boy
Ivy Revers
City of Hope
Jeanette
Separate But Equal
Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
Nothing But a Man
Lee
Christianity: The Second Millennium
Herself - Narrator
The Comedians
Mrs. Philipot
Coriolanus
Volumnia
The Cool World
Duke's Mom
Percy & Thunder
Sugar Brown
Top Secret
Judith
The Angel Levine
Sally
To All My Friends on Shore
Serena Blue
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
Narrator
The House of Dies Drear
Sheila Small
A History of God
The Voice of History
Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
The Oracle