Meg foster biography
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Blue-eyed brunette Meg Foster was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on May 10, 1948 to David and Nancy. She has four siblings and grew up in Rowayton, Connecticut. Foster studied acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse.
Foster's first role came about in 1969, when she appeared in an episode of NET Playhouse (1964). Throughout the '70s, she guest starred in numerous TV shows including Barnaby Jones (1973), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), and Hawaii Five-O (1968), and played Hester Prynne, a young woman who has an affair with a pastor, in the miniseries The Scarlet Letter (1979). Foster did not really come to attention until 1982, though, when she replaced Loretta Swit as Christine Cagney in Cagney & Lacey (1981); she herself was later replaced by Sharon Gless (CBS reportedly wanted a more "feminine" actress playing the role of the detective).
Foster began to appear in more movies throughout the late '80s, primarily Masters of the Universe (1987), in which she played the nefarious Evil-Lyn. Other notable films include the satirical science fiction flick They Live (1988), the horror sequel Stepfather II: Make Room for Daddy (1989), and the comedic martial arts movie Blind Fury (1989) (Terry O'Quinn also appeared in the latter two).
Foster
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Meg Foster
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Meg Foster
American actress
Margaret "Meg" Foster[1] (born May 10, 1948) is an American film and television actress. Some of her many roles were in the 1979 TV miniseries version of The Scarlet Letter, and the films Ticket to Heaven, The Osterman Weekend and They Live. She also starred as Christine Cagney in the first season of Cagney & Lacey.
Early years
[edit]Foster was born in Reading, Pennsylvania to David and Nancy (née Adamson) Foster on May 10, 1948,[3] and grew up in Rowayton, Connecticut with four siblings: sisters Gray, Jan and Nina, and brother Ian.[1][4][5] She studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York.[6]
Career
[edit]In 1968, Foster acted in a Cornell Summer Theatre production of John Brown's Body.[7] Later in the same year, she was in the off-Broadway production of The Empire Builders.[8]
When Loretta Swit was unable to reprise her television-film role of Detective Christine Cagney when the film was adapted into the Cagney & Lacey TV series, Foster took on the role for the short first season of only six episodes.[9] Foster was replaced by Sharon Gless for the remainder of the series. Entertainment