Gloria Foster
Actor
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
The Matrix Reloaded
as The Oracle 2003
Leonard Part 6
as Medusa 1987
The Comedians
as Mrs. Philipot 1967
City of Hope
as Jeanette 1991
Nothing But a Man
as Lee 1964
The Cool World
as Duke's Mom 1963
Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
as The Oracle 2004
Separate But Equal
as Vivian 'Buster' Marshall 1991
The Angel Levine
as Sally 1970
To All My Friends on Shore
as Serena Blue 1972
Man and Boy
as Ivy Revers 1971
Coriolanus
as Volumnia 1979
A History of God
as The Voice of History 2005
Top Secret
as Judith 1978
Percy & Thunder
as Sugar Brown 1993