Meg Foster

About

Margaret Foster (born May 10, 1948 or 1949) 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.

Foster was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, to David and Nancy (née Adamson) Foster on May 10, 1948, and grew up in Rowayton, Connecticut, with four siblings: sisters Gray, Jan and Nina, and brother Ian. Her father was of Scotch-Irish ancestry and her mother was of English ancestry. She studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York.

In 1968, Foster acted in a Cornell Summer Theatre production of John Brown’s Body. Later in the same year, she was in the off-Broadway production of The Empire Builders.
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. Foster was replaced by Sharon Gless for the remainder of the series. Entertainment columnist…