15 Facts About Gloria Foster

Gloria Foster had acclaimed roles in plays In White America and Having Our Say, winning three Obie Awards during her career.

Gloria Foster played the role of the mother of Yusef Bell in the miniseries The Atlanta Child Murders which aired in 1985.

Gloria Foster was born on November 15,1933, in Chicago, Illinois.

Gloria Foster never knew who her father was and she moved to Janesville, Wisconsin after her mother was hospitalized for a mental illness.

Gloria Foster attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she participated in plays, but did not focus on acting.

Gloria Foster decided to be a professional actor when her godmother introduced her to the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

Gloria Foster became one of the few African Americans at the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Gloria Foster, "play[s] a 13-year-old Arkansas girl who tries to enter her Little Rock school".

Gloria Foster won an Obie Award or Off-Broadway Theater Award.

Gloria Foster was known for her work with Joe Papp, and appeared in his productions of Long Day's Journey into Night, Chekhov's Cherry Orchard, Brecht's Mother Courage, and Shakespeare's Coriolanus.

Gloria Foster searched for roles in which she could perform to the best of her ability.

Gloria Foster was in many theatrical performances and performed some roles on television.

Gloria Foster returned to theatre again in 1995, acting alongside Mary Alice, appearing as 103-year-old Sadie Delany, in Having Our Say, on Broadway at the Booth Theatre, for which she received rave reviews.

Gloria Foster played the Oracle in The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded ; however, she died during filming and was thus unable to portray her role in the third film.

Gloria Foster died on September 29,2001, at age 67.