Gloria Foster
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.
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of...
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Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the...
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Leonard Part 6
as MedusaAfter separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a...
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The Comedians
as Mrs. PhilipotAmerican and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
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City of Hope
as JeanetteThis gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most...
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Separate But Equal
as Vivian 'Buster' MarshallA dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that...
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The Cool World
as Duke's MomA fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to...
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Nothing But a Man
as LeeA proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
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To All My Friends on Shore
as Serena BlueAn airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son...
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Top Secret
as JudithA hip American agent and his foxy associate try to recover a hundred pounds of stolen plutonium...
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The Angel Levine
as SallyMorris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a...
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Man and Boy
as Ivy ReversAt the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a...
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The House of Dies Drear
as Sheila SmallA young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the...
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Percy & Thunder
as Sugar BrownA veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
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Coriolanus
as VolumniaA video recording of a New York Shakespeare Festival 1979 stage production of Coriolanus with an...
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A History of God
as The Voice of HistoryFor over 4,000 years, adherents of the world's monotheistic faiths have wrestled with the...
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Law & Order
as Satima TateIn cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...
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The Cosby Show
as Dr. Barbara BracyThe Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for...
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The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - GuestThe Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...
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The Bill Cosby Show
as Dolores WintersThe Bill Cosby Show is an American situation comedy that aired for two seasons on NBC's Sunday...
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The Mod Squad
as uncreditedThe Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran...
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The Outcasts
as uncreditedThe Outcasts is an American Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69...
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Soul Food
as Ella LesterSoul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June...
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The Atlanta Child Murders
as Camille BellThe Atlanta Child Murders is a TV miniseries that aired on February 10 and 12, 1985 on CBS....
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Separate but Equal
as Vivian 'Buster' MarshallA two-part miniseries. Dramatizes the events leading up to the 1954 Supreme Court decision on...
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Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
as NarratorA two-series set produced by the A&E network which explores the history of Christianity and its...
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