Jodie Foster
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
164
Gender
Female
Birthday
1962-11-19 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Jodie Foster
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.
Known For
The Simpsons
The X-Files
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Golden Globe Awards
True Detective
Frasier
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Graham Norton Show
Bonanza
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Ironside
Quotidien
Adam-12
Midi Première
Medical Center
Champs-Elysées
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Intimate Portrait
Taxi Driver
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Oscars
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
ABC Afterschool Special
ABC Afterschool Special
A Private Life
Spécial cinéma
Daniel Boone
HBO First Look
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
La semaine des 4 Julie
Beach House
My Three Sons
Maverick
Motherhood
Goldene Kamera
Catchfire
Tom Sawyer
Contact
Sommersby
Elysium
Mesmerized
Anna and the King
Nell
The Beaver
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Jodie Promo
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Numéro un
Ghost Story
Svengali
Abby Singer
Inside Man
Mayberry R.F.D.
Mayberry R.F.D.
Beau geste
The Partridge Family
Breakdown: 1975
Carny
Rove
Cinefile: Reel Women
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
Julia
Lo + plus
O'Hara's Wife
Love, Antosha
Panic Room
The Brave One
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Paper Moon
The Silence of the Lambs
The Directors
Mr. Scorsese
The Emmy Awards
Becoming Iconic
Flightplan
The Mauritanian
Scorsese's Women
The Paul Lynde Show
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
Bugsy Malone
The Early Show
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
The Accused
One Little Indian
It Was a Wonderful Life
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
Carnage
The Addams Family
NYAD
A Very Long Engagement
Harty
Hotel Artemis
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Napoleon and Samantha
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Little Man Tate
Shooting 'Panic Room'
Freaky Friday
Nim's Island
Cérémonie des César
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The Hotel New Hampshire
Five Corners
Shadows and Fog
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Inside the Actors Studio
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Stealing Home
Foxes
Kansas City Bomber
Candleshoe
Kung Fu
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Making 'Taxi Driver'
The Blood of Others
Siesta
Hollywood’s Children
Early Directors on Directing
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
Grease Day USA
Mickey's 50
100 Films and a Funeral
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
Menace on the Mountain
Celebrities Uncensored
Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin
Stop Calling Me Baby!
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
The True Story of Hannibal
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Echoes of a Summer
Hinckley
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
The Making of '...And God Spoke'
Movies Are My Life
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
All About Bette
Everest: The Death Zone
Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs
Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning
Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World
Jodie Foster, une histoire française
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
A Look Back with Jodie Foster
