milkandheavysugar: American stage performer Gloria Foster, photographed in New York City in 1966. “I
milkandheavysugar: American stage performer Gloria Foster, photographed in New York City in 1966. “In 1965, she became the first black performer to play Medea in New York. She went on to portray other classical parts, including The Cherry Orchard’s Madame Ranevskaya, Long Day’s Journey Into Night’s Mary Tyrone, Clytemnestra in Agamemnon, the title role in Brecht’s Mother Courage, Volumnia in Coriolanus and both Titania and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”[X]Fun Fact: Foster played the Oracle in The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003) films, the latter film being her last -- source link