Cast & creator
Gloria Foster
Best known for Law & Order, The Dick Cavett Show, American Playhouse
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.
18
film credits
13
television credits
31
1964–2021 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (31)
Showing 31 of 31 credits
Law & Order
Satima Tate
1990
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
American Playhouse
Mrs. Hatch
1982American Playhouse
Lee
1982
The Cosby Show
Dr. Barbara Bracy
1984
The Matrix
Oracle
1999
The Matrix Reloaded
The Oracle
2003
The Mod Squad
1968
The Bill Cosby Show
Dolores Winters
1969
The Matrix Resurrections
Oracle (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
The Outcasts
1968
Soul Food
Ella Lester
2000
The Atlanta Child Murders
Camille Bell
1985
Separate but Equal
Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
1991
Nothing But a Man
Lee
1964
Coriolanus
Volumnia
1979
City of Hope
Jeanette
1991
Percy & Thunder
Sugar Brown
1993
The House of Dies Drear
Sheila Small
1984
Leonard Part 6
Medusa
1987Christianity: The Second Millennium
Herself - Narrator
2000
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
Narrator
2002
The Angel Levine
Sally
1970
The Comedians
Mrs. Philipot
1967
Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix
The Oracle
2004
Man and Boy
Ivy Revers
1971Separate but Equal
Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
1991
The Cool World
Duke's Mom
1964
To All My Friends on Shore
Serena Blue
1972
A History of God
The Voice of History
2005
Top Secret
Judith
1978