# The Oracle has left the Matrix

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**Created:** [October 10, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oracle-has-left-the-matrix/86479 "2001-10-10T01:54:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_Harvey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@Max\_Harvey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Harvey)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oracle-has-left-the-matrix/86479/1 "2001-10-10T01:54:50Z")

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[Gloria Foster Dead At 64](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-000079892oct06.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dobituaries)

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> \*\*Foster is perhaps most familiar to moviegoers for her role in “The Matrix,” in which she played the Oracle, a seer who sends Keanu Reeves on his surreal mind-bending mission through the matrix.

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☹ She was absolutely **perfect** in the role. (I don’t mean to sound ghoulish, but _geez_. First a stuntman dies, then Aaliyah, now Foster.)