Biography
Meg Foster is an actress from the United States who works in both television and movies. Ticket to Heaven, The Osterman Weekend, They Live, and the 1979 TV miniseries adaptation of The Scarlet Letter were just a few of her numerous performances.
Age
She is 76 years old as of May 2024. She was born in 1948 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States.
Family – Education
Foster was raised in Rowayton, Connecticut, among four siblings: brother Ian, sisters Gray, Jan, and Nina, and sister Nancy (née Adamson) Foster. Foster was born on May 10, 1948, in Reading, Pennsylvania. In New York, she pursued her acting studies at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
Relationship
Stephen McHattie, a Canadian actor, and Foster are divorced.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.
Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 6½ inches (1.69m).
Ticket to Heaven
She appeared as Ingrid in the 1981 Canadian drama film Ticket to Heaven. Following a breakup, schoolteacher David Kappel enrolls in a religious cult training camp. Positive reinforcement, a low-calorie diet, sleep deprivation, and group activities are all part of the camp experience. In addition to being forced to work as a volunteer, cult leader Patrick manipulates David.
Because David’s pals Larry and Esther are worried about him, he flees with Eric. David is abducted by his parents, who then employ Linc Strunk, a cult deprogrammer, to aid them. David struggles and eventually discovers the brutality and dishonesty of the cult. Cult members look on from a distance as he embraces his family and reunites outside the deprogramming house.
The Scarlet Letter
She played the role of Hester Prynne in the 1979 miniseries The Scarlet Letter. After committing adultery while her husband is in Europe, Hester Prynne, a young Puritan woman, is sentenced to wear a scarlet “A” for the rest of her life after giving birth to her illegitimate child. The Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, her covert accomplice, writhes in agony on the inside as he struggles to conceal his transgression. This gloomy triangle is completed by Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s husband, as the enigmatic circumstances build to a devastating conclusion. The narrative tracks the major characters as they debate redemption, forgiveness, and sin.
Career
Foster participated in the Cornell Summer Theatre’s staging of John Brown’s Body in 1968. She appeared in the off-Broadway production of The Empire Builders later in 1968.
When the movie was turned into a television series, Cagney & Lacey, Loretta Swit was unable to return to her role as Detective Christine Cagney. Foster took over the part for the brief (six episode) first season, before Sharon Gless took over. Regarding Foster’s dismissal from the show, entertainment critic Dick Kleiner stated in August 1982, “No matter who you talk to, it isn’t a pretty story.” Meg is still silent since she was so hurt and upset. However, she reported to friends that she felt like a vehicle had struck her.”
According to Kleiner’s account, Foster lost out on other possibilities as a result of her termination from the show. “Until that news spread,” he stated, “she was an in-demand actress.” Throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Foster was employed. Among the many TV shows in which she had guest appearances were two episodes of Hawaii Five-O (1973 and 1976), “Straight on ’til Morning” (1974) from The Six Million Dollar Man’s second season, Three for the Road (1975), and “The Muse” (1996) from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s fourth season.
A few other TV series that I can think of are: Barnaby Jones, Murder, She Wrote, Miami Vice, Mannix, The Cosby Show, Quantum Leap, ER, The Twilight Zone, Here Come the Brides, Storefront Lawyers, and Barnaby Jones. In Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, she also played Hera.
Her filmography in the 1980s included appearances as Evil-Lyn in the big-screen adaptation of Masters of the Universe, Holly in the John Carpenter film They Live starring “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, and a role as a woman who worked in the games in a traveling carnival in Carny, starring Jodie Foster, Gary Busey, and Robbie Robertson.
Mademoiselle magazine labeled Foster’s beautiful pale-blue eyes “the eyes of 1979”. That year, she claimed in a newspaper article that she didn’t think her eyes were “so distinctive”. To counteract what they saw as the “distractive” effect of Foster’s eyes, a few producers of motion pictures and television shows made her wear contact lenses.
Movies
♦ 2022 – Hellblazers
♦ 2020 – There’s No Such Thing as Vampires
♦ 2019 – Investigation 13
♦ 2018 – A Reckoning
♦ 2018 – Any Bullet Will Do
♦ 2018 – Overlord
♦ 2017 – Teen Titans: The Judas Contract
♦ 2017 – Jeepers Creepers 3
♦ 2016 – Three Days in August
♦ 2016 – 31
♦ 2012 – The Lords of Salem
♦ 2011 – 25 Hill
♦ 2011 – Sebastian
♦ 2004 – Coming Up Easy
♦ 2003 – Being with Eddie
♦ 1999 – The Minus Man
♦ 1998 – Lost Valley
TV Shows
♦ 2024 – Masters of the Universe: Revolution
♦ 2017 – Twin Peaks
♦ 2016 – Baskets
♦ 2015 – The Originals
♦ 2013 – Hjem
♦ 2013–16 – Pretty Little Liars
♦ 2013–14 – Ravenswood
♦ 2000 – Xena: Warrior Princess
♦ 1999 – Sliders
♦ 1998–99 – Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
♦ 1996 – Mr. & Mrs. Smith
♦ 1996 – Murder, She Wrote
♦ 1996 – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
♦ 1995 – ER
♦ 1994 – Fortune Hunter
♦ 1992 – Quantum Leap
♦ 1992 – Reasonable Doubts
♦ 1991 – Shannon’s Deal
