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 its first sequel, The Matrix Reloaded (2003). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gloria Foster has received more than 1,791,065 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Gloria Foster is the 2,423rd 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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  • 1.8M

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  • 59.31

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gloria Foster ranks 2,423 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).