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Meg Foster

Highest Rated: 87% They Live (1988)

Lowest Rated: 10% Best of the Best II (1993)

Birthday: May 10, 1948

Birthplace: Reading, Pennsylvania, USA

An intense, stage-trained leading lady of film and TV with striking blue eyes and a velvety voice, Meg Foster evolved from playing convincing hippies in the 1970s to competent career women in the 80s and 90s. Foster discovered acting while attending boarding school in Lowell, MA, and pursued this interest at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse. She appeared in a Cornell University Summer Theater production of "John Brown's Body" before making her off-Broadway debut in "The Empire Builders." Foster moved to L.A. and soon found work in film and TV, making her feature debut in the small role of the estranged girlfriend of Michael Douglas in "Adam at 6 A.M." (1970). She advanced to leads as a hitchhiker in "Thumb Tripping" (1972) and went on to a number of films of dubious quality where her performance was the most praised element. Among the latter were Laurence Harvey's final film, "Welcome to Arrow Beach/Tender Flesh" (1974), as a potential meal of a cannibalistic veteran, and the offensive romantic comedy "A Different Story" (1978), as a lesbian who gets romantically involved with a gay man. She fared better in a Genie-nominated performance in "A Ticket to Heaven" (1981), an acclaimed Canadian drama about cult religions. Foster's subsequent film credits have been primarily low-budget genre fodder with a few brighter spots including Sam Peckinpah's "The Osterman Weekend" (1983), John Boorman's "The Emerald Forest" (1985), as the mother of a boy raised by Amazonian Indians, and John Carpenter's "They Live" (1988).

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Highest rated movies

87% 80% They Live Watchlist
84% 79% The Emerald Forest
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80% 76% Ticket to Heaven
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71% 99% There's No Such Thing as Vampires Watchlist
58% 45% The Minus Man
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57% 51% Carny
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53% 51% Blind Fury
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50% 33% Relentless
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48% 36% 31 Watchlist
47% 30% The Lords of Salem
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
20% 17% The Accursed Ms. Ambrose (Character) - 2022
No Score Yet 29% Hellblazers Mary (Character) - 2022
71% 99% There's No Such Thing as Vampires Sister Frank (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet 50% Investigation 13 Unknown (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet 55% Any Bullet Will Do Ma Whitman (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet 6% A Reckoning Diana Maple (Character) - 2018
17% 29% Jeepers Creepers 3 Gaylen Brandon (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet 93% Three Days in August Maggie (Character) - 2016
48% 36% 31 Venus Virgo (Character) $779.8K 2016
47% 30% The Lords of Salem Margaret Morgan (Character) $1.2M 2012
No Score Yet 88% 25 Hill Audrey Gibbs (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Coming Up Easy Mom (Character) - 2004
58% 45% The Minus Man Irene (Character) $368.8K 1999
No Score Yet 38% Spoiler Woman 1 (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lost Valley Mary-ann Compton (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Deep Family Secrets Ellen (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 33% Backlash: Oblivion 2 Stell Barr (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 29% Space Marines Cmdr. Lasser (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Killers Within Laura Seaton (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 33% Undercover Mrs. V (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 33% Shrunken Heads Big Moe (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 26% Oblivion Stell Barr (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 42% Immortal Combat Quinn (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 33% Lady in Waiting Carrie (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hidden Fears Maureen Dietz (Character) - 1993
10% 48% Best of the Best II Sue MacCauley (Character) $6.0M 1993
No Score Yet 29% Project: Shadowchaser Sarah (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 86% To Catch a Killer City Attorney Linda Carlson (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 62% Future Kick Nancy (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 12% Diplomatic Immunity Gerta Hermann (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 8% Dead On: Relentless II Carol Dietz (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 14% Tripwire Julia (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Betrayal of Silence Julie (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Backstab Sara Rudnick (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jezebel's Kiss Amanda Faberson (Character) - 1990
50% 33% Relentless Carol Dietz (Character) $7.0M 1989
23% 27% Leviathan Ms. Martin (Character) $15.4M 1989
53% 51% Blind Fury Lynn Devereaux (Character) $2.1M 1989
22% 35% Stepfather II Carol Grayland (Character) $255.3K 1989
87% 80% They Live Holly (Character) $12.3M 1988
No Score Yet 24% The Wind Sian Anderson (Character) - 1987
21% 41% Masters of the Universe Evil-Lyn (Character) $16.3M 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Motorcycle Boy Sara (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Desperate Dorymae (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Riding Fast Sara (Character) - 1986
84% 79% The Emerald Forest Jean Markham (Character) $24.0M 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Best Kept Secrets Shari Mitchell (Character) - 1984
45% 38% The Osterman Weekend Ali Tanner (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Desperate Intruder Joanna Walcott (Character) - 1983
80% 76% Ticket to Heaven Ingrid (Character) - 1981
57% 51% Carny Gerta (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 60% The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Katrina Van Tassel (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 36% The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne (Character) - 1979
38% 71% A Different Story Stella Cooke (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sunshine Christmas Nora (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 30% James Dean Dizzy Sheridan (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Things in Their Season Judy Pines (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet 67% Welcome to Arrow Beach Robbin Stanley (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Promise Him Anything Marjorie (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sunshine Nora (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Thumb Tripping Shay (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Death of Me Yet Alice (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 38% Adam at 6 A.M. Joyce (Character) - 1970

TV

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95% 52% Masters of the Universe: Revelation Motherboard (Voice) 2024
94% 83% Twin Peaks: The Return Cashier (Guest Star) 2017
84% 71% The Originals Unknown (Guest Star) 2015
81% 81% Pretty Little Liars Unknown (Guest Star) 2013 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Elvira's 10 Nights of Halloween Big Moe (Character) 2014
No Score Yet 90% The Mentalist Unknown (Guest Star) 2013
No Score Yet 86% Xena Unknown (Guest Star) 2000
No Score Yet 72% Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Unknown (Guest Star) 1998-1999
No Score Yet 75% Sliders Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
91% 89% Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Onaya (Guest Star) 1996
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Del Scott (Guest Star) 1985 1996
No Score Yet 85% ER Mrs. Rose (Guest Star) 1995
No Score Yet 90% Quantum Leap Laura Fuller (Guest Star) 1992
78% No Score Yet The Trials of Rosie O'Neill Unknown (Guest Star) 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Hitchhiker Unknown (Character) 1989
71% 89% Miami Vice D.A. Alice Carson (Guest Star) 1987-1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bronk Unknown (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Streets of San Francisco Nancy Elizabeth Mellon (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Six Million Dollar Man Minonee (Guest Star) 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Barnaby Jones Unknown (Guest Star) 1973-1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cannon Linda Morrow (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mannix Sheila Linley (Guest Star) 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sixth Sense Unknown (Guest Star) 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mod Squad Cora (Guest Star) 1970-1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dan August Em Jackson (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bonanza Unknown (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Interns Unknown (Guest Star) 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Here Come the Brides Callie Marsh (Guest Star) 1970