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.

Filmography

• 2021The Matrix Resurrections — Oracle (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2005A History of God — The Voice of History
• 2004Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix — The Oracle
• 2003The Matrix Reloaded — The Oracle
• Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years — Narrator
• Soul Food — Ella Lester
• 1999The Matrix — Oracle
• 1993Percy & Thunder — Sugar Brown
• 1991City of Hope — Jeanette
• 1991Separate but Equal — Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
• Separate but Equal — Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
• Law & Order — Satima Tate
• 1987Leonard Part 6 — Medusa
• The Atlanta Child Murders — Camille Bell
• The Cosby Show — Dr. Barbara Bracy
• 1984The House of Dies Drear — Sheila Small
• American Playhouse — Mrs. Hatch, Lee
• 1979Coriolanus — Volumnia
• 1978Top Secret — Judith
• 1972To All My Friends on Shore — Serena Blue
• 1971Man and Boy — Ivy Revers
• 1970The Angel Levine — Sally
• The Bill Cosby Show — Dolores Winters
• The Mod Squad
• The Outcasts
• 1967The Comedians — Mrs. Philipot
• 1964Nothing But a Man — Lee
• 1964The Cool World — Duke's Mom

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Christianity: The Second Millennium — Herself - Narrator
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest