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Gloria Foster

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

死亡 : 2001-09-29

略歴

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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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.

マトリックスリローデッド

Oracle

人類の最期の砦「ザイオン」に残されたのは72時間。それを過ぎれば25万のセンチネルに襲われるだろう。しかしモーフィアスの信念は堅い。オラクルによればネオがこの戦争に終止符を打つ。一方のネオはヒントを得るためオラクルに会いに行く。

マトリックス

Oracle

トーマス・アンダーソンは、大手ソフトウェア会社に勤めるプログラマである。しかし彼には天才ハッカー、ネオというもう一つの顔があった。ある日、彼はとある人物から連絡を受け、警察に追われる。そして彼から衝撃的な世界の真実を告げられた。

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.

Separate But Equal

Vivian 'Buster' Marshall

A dramatization of the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation. One of the most pivotal moments in 20th century American history is bracingly dramatized in Separate but Equal. In telling the detailed story of the Supreme Court's 1953 decision to abolish racial segregation in schools, this superb 1991 TV movie covers a broad spectrum of issues, never taking its "eyes off the prize" while its first-rate cast conveys the importance of the Supreme Court's ultimately unanimous decision.

Leonard Part 6

Medusa

After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his daughter, who changes her career more often than her clothes, has begun dating a man old enough to be Leonard's father! On top of it all, the government has asked him to come back and save the world again.

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.

Man and Boy

Ivy Revers

At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time.

The 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?

The Comedians

Mrs. Philipot

American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.

Nothing But a Man

Lee

A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

The Cool World

Duke's Mom

A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem.