Америкалық актриса Глория Фостер өмірі мен шығармашылығы

American actress

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

Foster was born on November 15, 1933, in Chicago, Illinois. As a young child, Foster was put into the custody of her maternal grandparents. Foster never knew who her father was and she moved to Janesville, Wisconsin after her mother was hospitalized for a mental illness. Foster attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she participated in plays, but did not focus on acting. Foster decided to be a professional actor when her godmother introduced her to the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. One of her most influential instructors was Bella Itkin, who cast Gloria in many classical roles. Instead having to audition for roles, people started to make parts for her to be in. Foster searched for roles in which she could perform to the best of her ability. She once said, "Young people today, I think, are thinking in terms of stepping stones. I don't know that I ever thought that way. It sounds ridiculous, but I was always thinking in terms of a more difficult role". She was also active in television, appearing in such programs as I Spy, two episodes of Law & Order and The Cosby Show (1987). Her character in both Law and Order episodes, named Satima Tate, was based on the widow of Malcolm X, Betty Shabazz. The first episode, titled Conspiracy (1992), was based on Malcolm X's assassination. Malcolm X was played by Hal Miller. The second episode, titled Entrapment (1997), focused on her character's children's acts of revenge against the people they believed were really responsible. She returned to theatre again in 1995, acting alongside Mary Alice (who was later to replace her in The Matrix films following her death), appearing as 103 year old Sadie Delany, in Having Our Say, on Broadway at the Booth Theatre, for which she received rave reviews. She played the Oracle in The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003);