Biography
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. For her work as a producer and director, she has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She has also earned numerous honors such as the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2013, was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016 and received the Cannes Film Festival's Honorary Palme d'Or in 2021.
Foster began her professional career as a child model and later as a teen idol in various Disney films including Napoleon and Samantha (1972), Freaky Friday (1976) and Candleshoe (1977). She acted in Martin Scorsese's comedy-drama Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and reunited with him in Taxi Driver (1976) in a role for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. Other early films include Tom Sawyer (1973), Bugsy Malone (1976), The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), Carny (1980) and Foxes (1980).
After attending Yale University, Foster transitioned into mature leading roles earning two Academy Awards for playing a rape victim in The Accused (1988), and Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). She also received a nomination for Nell (1994). Her other notable films include Sommersby (1993), Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Anna and the King (1999), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007), Nim's Island (2008), Carnage (2011), Elysium (2013), Hotel Artemis (2018), and The Mauritanian (2021).
Foster made her directorial film debut with Little Man Tate (1991) and has since directed films such as Home for the Holidays (1995), The Beaver (2011) and Money Monster (2016). She founded her own production company, Egg Pictures, in 1992. She earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for producing The Baby Dance (1999), and directing the Orange Is the New Black episode "Lesbian Request Denied" in 2014. She has also directed episodes for Tales from the Darkside, House of Cards, Black Mirror, and Tales from the Loop.
Filmography
all 159
Movies 98
self 67
TV Shows 61
Director 10
Producer 5
Voice 5
Alok (2024)
Jodie Foster, une histoire française (2023)
NYAD (2023)
Beau geste (2023)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées (2022)
Jodie Foster, Hollywood Under the Skin (2021)
Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony (2021)
The Mauritanian (2021)
Showbiz Kids (2020)
Tales from the Loop (2020)
La semaine des 4 Julie (2020)
The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
Love, Antosha (2019)
Mouthpiece (2019)
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
Becoming Iconic (2018)
Hotel Artemis (2018)
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
Money Monster (2016)
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
True Detective (2014)
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array (2013)
Elysium (2013)
Orange Is the New Black (2013)
House of Cards (2013)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
Black Mirror (2011)
Carnage (2011)
The Beaver (2011)
Close Up (2011)
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs (2010)
Motherhood (2009)
Nim's Island (2008)
100 Films and a Funeral (2007)
The Brave One (2007)
Girl 27 (2007)
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)
Inside Man (2006)
Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster (2005)
Flightplan (2005)
The True Story of Hannibal (2005)
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)
Shooting 'Panic Room' (2004)
Abby Singer (2003)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)
Celebrities Uncensored (2003)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
Page to Screen (2002)
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' (2002)
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)
Panic Room (2002)
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' (2001)
Waking the Dead (2000)
Anna and the King (1999)
The Early Show (1999)
Rove (1999)
Making 'Taxi Driver' (1999)
The Directors (1999)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (1998)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998)
Everest: The Death Zone (1998)
Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World (1998)
Contact (1997)
The Daily Show (1996)
Jodie: An Icon (1996)
Home for the Holidays (1995)
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)
Cinefile: Reel Women (1995)
Nell (1994)
Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
All About Bette (1994)
Maverick (1994)
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! (1994)
Intimate Portrait (1993)
Frasier (1993)
The X-Files (1993)
Sommersby (1993)
It Was a Wonderful Life (1993)
HBO First Look (1992)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
Shadows and Fog (1991)
Little Man Tate (1991)
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Catchfire (1990)
The Simpsons (1989)
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife (1989)
The Accused (1988)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
Stealing Home (1988)
Siesta (1987)
Five Corners (1987)
Mesmerized (1985)
Stephen King's Golden Tales (1985)
Tales from the Darkside (1984)
The Blood of Others (1984)
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Harty (1983)
Svengali (1983)
Hollywood’s Children (1982)
Champs-Elysées (1982)
O'Hara's Wife (1982)
Carny (1980)
Foxes (1980)
Mickey's 50 (1978)
Movies Are My Life (1978)
Grease Day USA (1978)
The Hands of Time (1978)
Candleshoe (1977)
Beach House (1977)
Stop Calling Me Baby! (1977)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
Freaky Friday (1976)
Bugsy Malone (1976)
Cérémonie des César (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Echoes of a Summer (1976)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
Numéro un (1975)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975)
Midi Première (1975)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Spécial cinéma (1974)
Paper Moon (1974)
Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1973)
The Addams Family (1973)
One Little Indian (1973)
Tom Sawyer (1973)
Kung Fu (1972)
ABC Afterschool Special (1972)
Ghost Story (1972)
The Paul Lynde Show (1972)
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (1972)
The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972)
Kansas City Bomber (1972)
Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
Menace on the Mountain (1970)
Medical Center (1969)
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969)
Mayberry R.F.D. (1968)
Adam-12 (1968)
Julia (1968)
Ironside (1967)
Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1966)
Daniel Boone (1964)
My Three Sons (1960)
Bonanza (1959)
Gunsmoke (1955)
The Oscars (1953)
Golden Globe Awards (1944)
The Beast in Me
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
A Look Through His Lens
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1962-11-19 (61 years old)
Birth NameAlicia Christian Foster
Birth PlaceLos Angeles, United States of America
Religionatheism
Height
SpouseAlexandra Hedison
FatherLucius Fisher Foster
MotherBrandy Almond
SiblingsConnie Foster, Buddy Foster
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsJody Foster, Alicia Christian Foster, Jodi Foster, 조디 포스터, ジョディ・フォスター, Джоди Фостер, Τζόντι Φόστερ, 朱迪·福斯特, Джоді Фостер, 乔迪·福斯特
AwardsCrystal Award, Sitges Grand Honorary Award, Mary Pickford Award, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress, BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress, Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, Saturn Award for Best Actress, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, Golden Globe Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Saturn Award, Academy Award for Best Actress, Screen Actors Guild Award
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