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 1,756,719 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Gloria Foster is the 2,424th 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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  • 52.87

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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 2,424 out of 13,578. Before 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 207. Before 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 119. Before 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 20,380. Before 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).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Gloria Foster ranks 1,108. Before 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).

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Television and Movie Roles

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.
Mar 31st 19998.2 / 10
The Matrix Reloaded
The 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.
May 15th 20037.052 / 10
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.
Dec 18th 19872.8 / 10