Gloria Foster
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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
Credits
The Matrix (1999)
as Oracle
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
as The Oracle
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
as Oracle (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nothing But a Man (1964)
as Lee
City of Hope (1991)
as Jeanette
The House of Dies Drear (1984)
as Sheila Small
Coriolanus (1979)
as Volumnia
The Comedians (1967)
as Mrs. Philipot
Leonard Part 6 (1987)
as Medusa
Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix (2004)
as The Oracle
Percy & Thunder (1993)
as Sugar Brown
Separate but Equal (1991)
as Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
The Cool World (1964)
as Duke's Mom
Man and Boy (1971)
as Ivy Revers
The Angel Levine (1970)
as Sally
To All My Friends on Shore (1972)
as Serena Blue
A History of God (2005)
as The Voice of History
Top Secret (1978)
as Judith