Gloria Foster
Acting
Born: 1933-11-15 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Known For
Law & Order
Satima Tate
The Matrix
Oracle
The Cosby Show
Dr. Barbara Bracy
American Playhouse
Mrs. Hatch
American Playhouse
Lee
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Matrix Reloaded
The Oracle
The Matrix Resurrections
Oracle (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Mod Squad
The Bill Cosby Show
Dolores Winters
Soul Food
Ella Lester
The Outcasts
The Atlanta Child Murders
Camille Bell
Coriolanus
Volumnia
The Comedians
Mrs. Philipot
Separate but Equal
Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
Leonard Part 6
Medusa
Man and Boy
Ivy Revers
Nothing But a Man
Lee
City of Hope
Jeanette
Separate but Equal
Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
Narrator
The Cool World
Duke's Mom
The Angel Levine
Sally
The House of Dies Drear
Sheila Small
Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
The Oracle
A History of God
The Voice of History
Percy & Thunder
Sugar Brown
Top Secret
Judith
To All My Friends on Shore
Serena Blue