ACTOR

Gloria Foster

1933 - 2001

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Gloria Foster (November 15, 1933 – September 29, 2001) was an American actress. She had acclaimed roles in plays In White America and Having Our Say, winning three Obie Awards during her career. Foster played the Oracle in The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003) films, the latter film being her last. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gloria Foster has received more than 1,646,076 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Gloria Foster is the 2,421st most popular actor (down from 1,431st in 2019), the 3,833rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,492nd in 2019) and the 1,108th most popular American Actor.

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  • 52.87

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gloria Fosters by language

Over the past year Gloria Foster has had the most page views in the with 157,179 views, followed by German (19,166), and Russian (10,614). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Haitian (98.06%), Southern Azerbaijani (97.37%), and Finnish (40.91%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gloria Foster ranks 2,421 out of 13,578Before her are Geraldine Farrar, Kumail Nanjiani, Aracy Balabanian, Tia Carrere, Michael Winslow, and Shannon Lee. After her are Antonio Moreno, Eric Braeden, Fritz Muliar, Jeffrey Jones, Akira Takarada, and Jeff Fahey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Gloria Foster ranks 207Before her are Doyle Brunson, Sergio Endrigo, Juzo Itami, Robert Shavlakadze, Ron Wyatt, and Robert Blake. After her are Ray Dolby, Evaristo de Macedo, Mariya Pisareva, Siân Phillips, Hope Lange, and Lamine Diack. Among people deceased in 2001, Gloria Foster ranks 119Before her are Paul Vanden Boeynants, Vasily Mishin, Marta Hillers, Budd Boetticher, Leila Pahlavi, and Jelle Zijlstra. After her are Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Gregory Corso, Grigory Chukhray, David Lewis, Aaliyah, and Kathleen Freeman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gloria Foster ranks 3,833 out of 20,380Before her are Geraldine Farrar (1882), Gilbert Stuart (1755), Tia Carrere (1967), Ira Gershwin (1896), Michael Winslow (1958), and Shannon Lee (1969). After her are Ray Dolby (1933), Jimmy Smith (1925), Chester Barnard (1886), Elizabeth Warren (1949), Stanley Schachter (1922), and Randy Savage (1952).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Gloria Foster ranks 1,108Before her are David Janssen (1931), Michael Berryman (1948), Geraldine Farrar (1882), Tia Carrere (1967), Michael Winslow (1958), and Shannon Lee (1969). After her are Jeffrey Jones (1946), Jeff Fahey (1952), Brian Thompson (1959), William Devane (1939), Ron Rifkin (1939), and Rosario Dawson (1979).

Television and Movie Roles

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 Matrix
Oracle
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
The Matrix Reloaded
Oracle
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has discovered his superpowers including super speed, ability to see the codes of the things inside the matrix and a certain degree of pre-cognition. But a nasty piece of news hits the human resistance: 250,000 machine sentinels are digging to Zion and would reach them in 72 hours. As Zion prepares for the ultimate war, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity are advised by the Oracle to find the Keymaker who would help them reach the Source. Meanwhile Neo's recurrent dreams depicting Trinity's death have got him worried and as if it was not enough, Agent Smith has somehow escaped deletion, has become more powerful than before and has fixed Neo as his next target.