Gloria Foster

Acting · Born 1933-11-15 · 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

• The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
• A History of God (2005)
• Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix (2004)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Percy & Thunder (1993)
• Separate But Equal (1991)
• City of Hope (1991)
• Leonard Part 6 (1987)
• The House of Dies Drear (1984)
• Coriolanus (1979)
• Top Secret (1978)
• To All My Friends on Shore (1972)
• Man and Boy (1971)
• The Angel Levine (1970)
• The Comedians (1967)
• Nothing But a Man (1964)
• The Cool World (1964)
• Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years (2002)
• Soul Food (2000)
• Christianity: The Second Millennium (2000)
• Separate but Equal (1991)
• Law & Order (1990)
• The Atlanta Child Murders (1985)