Margaret Foster (born May 10, 1948) is an American actress who had
roles in the TV miniseries version of The Scarlet Letter and the films
Ticket to Heaven, The Osterman Weekend, and They Live among many other
projects.Foster was born in Reading, Pennsylvania to David and Nancy
(née Adamson) Foster, and grew up in Rowayton, Connecticut with four
siblings: sisters Gray, Jan, and Nina, and brother Ian. She studied
acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New
York.In 1968, Foster acted in a Cornell Summer Theater production of
John Brown's Body. Later in 1968, she was in the off-Broadway
production of The Empire Builders.When Loretta Swit was unable to
reprise her television-film role[citation needed] of Detective
Christine Cagney when the film was adapted into the Cagney & Lacey TV
series, Foster took on the role for the short (six episodes) first
season, before she was replaced by Sharon Gless. Entertainment
columnist Dick Kleiner wrote in August 1982 about Foster's being
dropped from the show: "It isn't a pretty story, no matter who you
talk to. Meg was so hurt and distraught that she still isn't talking.
But she told friends that she felt as though she had been hit by a
truck." Kleiner's story implied that Foster's dismissal from the show
had cost her other opportunities. "Until that news spread," he wrote,
"she was an in-demand actress."
roles in the TV miniseries version of The Scarlet Letter and the films
Ticket to Heaven, The Osterman Weekend, and They Live among many other
projects.Foster was born in Reading, Pennsylvania to David and Nancy
(née Adamson) Foster, and grew up in Rowayton, Connecticut with four
siblings: sisters Gray, Jan, and Nina, and brother Ian. She studied
acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New
York.In 1968, Foster acted in a Cornell Summer Theater production of
John Brown's Body. Later in 1968, she was in the off-Broadway
production of The Empire Builders.When Loretta Swit was unable to
reprise her television-film role[citation needed] of Detective
Christine Cagney when the film was adapted into the Cagney & Lacey TV
series, Foster took on the role for the short (six episodes) first
season, before she was replaced by Sharon Gless. Entertainment
columnist Dick Kleiner wrote in August 1982 about Foster's being
dropped from the show: "It isn't a pretty story, no matter who you
talk to. Meg was so hurt and distraught that she still isn't talking.
But she told friends that she felt as though she had been hit by a
truck." Kleiner's story implied that Foster's dismissal from the show
had cost her other opportunities. "Until that news spread," he wrote,
"she was an in-demand actress."
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