Gloria Foster
Acting • Born 1933-11-15 – Died 2001-09-29
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.
Filmography
29 credits
The Matrix
Movie • 1999
Oracle
The Matrix Reloaded
Movie • 2003
The Oracle
Leonard Part 6
Movie • 1987
Medusa
Nothing But a Man
Movie • 1964
Lee
The Comedians
Movie • 1967
Mrs. Philipot
A History of God
Movie • 2005
The Voice of History
Man and Boy
Movie • 1971
Ivy Revers
To All My Friends on Shore
Movie • 1972
Serena Blue
The Angel Levine
Movie • 1970
Sally
Top Secret
Movie • 1978
Judith
Percy & Thunder
Movie • 1993
Sugar Brown
Separate But Equal
Movie • 1991
Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
Coriolanus
Movie • 1979
Volumnia
The House of Dies Drear
Movie • 1984
Sheila Small
City of Hope
Movie • 1991
Jeanette
The Cool World
Movie • 1964
Duke's Mom
Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
Movie • 2004
The Oracle
The Matrix Resurrections
Movie • 2021
Oracle (archive footage) (uncredited)
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Satima Tate
The Cosby Show
TV • 1984
Dr. Barbara Bracy
Soul Food
TV • 2000
Ella Lester
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
The Bill Cosby Show
TV • 1969
Dolores Winters
The Outcasts
TV • 1968
Separate but Equal
TV • 1991
Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
Christianity: The Second Millennium
TV • 2000
Herself - Narrator
The Atlanta Child Murders
TV • 1985
Camille Bell
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
TV • 2002
Narrator