
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)

City of Hope (1991)
as Jeanette

Leonard Part 6 (1987)
as Medusa

The Comedians (1967)
as Mrs. Philipot

Top Secret (1978)
as Judith

The Cool World (1964)
as Duke's Mom

Separate But Equal (1991)
as Vivian 'Buster' Marshall

Coriolanus (1979)
as Volumnia

Nothing But a Man (1964)
as Lee

Man and Boy (1971)
as Ivy Revers

The Angel Levine (1970)
as Sally

Percy & Thunder (1993)
as Sugar Brown

The House of Dies Drear (1984)
as Sheila Small

Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix (2004)
as The Oracle

A History of God (2005)
as The Voice of History

To All My Friends on Shore (1972)
as Serena Blue





