Gloria Foster

Gloria Foster

Nacimiento : 1933-11-15, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Muerte : 2001-09-29

Historia

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.

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Gloria Foster
Gloria Foster
Gloria Foster

Películas

A History of God
The Voice of History
For over 4,000 years, adherents of the world's monotheistic faiths have wrestled with the question of God. This extraordinary, feature-length film, based on Karen Armstrong's acclaimed book of the same name, traces that elusive and fascinating quest.
Matrix Reloaded
Oracle
Las máquinas avanzan imparables hacia Zion en su afán por destruir a toda la humanidad y todas las naves se preparan para la dura batalla. Neo junto con Morfeo y Trinity buscan el camino del elegido dentro de Matrix para vencer a las máquinas y se encuentran con dificultades inesperadas: el agente Smith ha vuelto y no sólo eso, otros programas dentro de Matrix intentarán acabar con su misión. Mientras tanto Neo se tendrá que adaptar a la vida real y a la fama de ser el elegido.
Matrix
Oracle
Thomas Anderson lleva una doble vida: por el día es programador en una importante empresa de software, y por la noche un hacker informático llamado Neo. Su vida no volverá a ser igual cuando unos misteriosos personajes le inviten a descubrir la respuesta a la pregunta que no le deja dormir: ¿qué es Matrix?
Percy & Thunder
Sugar Brown
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
City of Hope
Jeanette
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.
Enfrentados (Miniserie de TV)
Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
Carolina del Sur, año 1949. Aunque las leyes condenan la discriminación social de los negros desde el fin de la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865), la segregación, de hecho, sigue existiendo.
Un espía super guay (Leonard Part 6)
Medusa
Leonard Parker (Bill Cosby) es un agente secreto, un ex-espía de la CIA retirado que tiene que volver a la acción. El "6" del título se refiere a que se trata de la sexta entrega de la "saga" de las aventuras de Leonard, ya que las partes anteriores, 1, 2, 3, 4 y 5 están bloqueadas por motivos de seguridad mundial.
The House of Dies Drear
Sheila Small
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.
Coriolanus
Volumnia
A video recording of a New York Shakespeare Festival 1979 stage production of Coriolanus with an all-black and Hispanic cast. Producer Joseph Papp intended to provide professional opportunities for actors of minority ethnic backgrounds. A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
Top Secret
Judith
A hip American agent and his foxy associate try to recover a hundred pounds of stolen plutonium in Italy before it can be used by terrorists.
To All My Friends On Shore
Serena Blue
An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia.
El hombre y el niño
Ivy Revers
Al principio del siglo XIX un hombre y su hijo se asientan en Arizona que, en aquellos tiempos, era tierra fronteriza y estaba llena de forajidos.
El angel Levine
Sally
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
Los comediantes
Mrs. Philipot
Un hombre totalmente ajeno a la política viaja a Haití, estado insular gobernado con mano de hierro por el dictador Papa Doc Duvalier, para reanudar su relación amorosa con la esposa de un embajador. Sin embargo, durante su estancia observa ciertos hechos que producen en él un cambio radical que lo lleva a alterar sus planes iniciales
Nothing But a Man
Lee
En plena agitación del movimiento de derechos civiles y una creciente ola de orgullo negro, "Nothing But a Man" cuenta la historia de Duff, un empleado del ferrocarril que se ve obligado a enfrentarse a los prejuicios raciales y la abnegación cuando se enamora de Josie, la educada hija de un predicador.
The Cool World
Duke's Mom
El adolescente Duke vive en un ghetto de Harlem donde la única manera de mostrar su hombría es comprando una pistola y ser el líder de una pandilla que regrese la tradición del bopping (peleas entre pandillas) a las calles de su barrio. The cool world es la primera película que retrata la vida de los barrios negros, alejandose de los estereotipos; un largometraje producido por el maestro de la tradición documental Frederick Wiseman.