Gloria Foster (November 15, 1933 – September 29, 2001) played The Oracle during the first two Matrix movies. In 2001 she died from diabetes, and was replaced by Mary Alice in Revolutions. Archival footage from one of her scenes in The Matrix film was included in The Matrix Resurrections.
Early life[]
Gloria Foster was born in Chicago, Illinois. As a young child she was put into custody of her mother's grandparents. Gloria Foster never knew who her father was and she moved to Janesville, Wisconsin after her mother was hospitalized for a mental illness. She attended the University of Illinois.
Filmography[]
Gloria Foster playing the Oracle in The Matrix
Film[]
- The Matrix Resurrections (2021) as The Oracle (archive footage only)
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003) as The Oracle
- The Matrix (1999) as The Oracle
- City of Hope (1991) as Jeanette
- Leonard Part 6 (1987) as Medusa
- Man and Boy (1972) as Ivy Revers
- The Angel Levine (1970) as Sally
- The Comedians (1967) as Mrs. Philipot
- Nothing But a Man (1964) as Lee
- The Cool World (1964) as Mrs. Custis
Television[]
- Percy & Thunder (1993) as Sugar Brown
- Law & Order (1992) as Mrs. Tate
- Separate But Equal (1991) as Buster
- The Cosby Show (1987) as Dr. Barbara Bracy
- The Atlanta Child Murders (1985 miniseries) as Camille Bell
- House of Dies Drear (1984) as Sheila Small
- The Files on Jill Hatch (1983) as Mrs. Hatch
- Top Secret (1978) as Judith
- To All My Friends on Shore (1972) as Serena
- I Spy (1968) as Shana
- The Bill Cosby Show (1970 TV series) as Dolores Winters