Foster worked as a part-time physical education Teacher while bringing up three children. She performed as an Actress and an extra in several stage and film productions. While working as an extra on Patriot Games, she found out that there were no black female stunt actresses in the UK. She trained for six years and was accepted on the stunt register in six disciplines. She qualified in 1997.
Foster won the 2003 Taurus World Stunt Award for her work on Die Another Day.
