Jodie Foster
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
158
Gender
Female
Birthday
1962-11-19 (62 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 Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Bonanza
The Graham Norton Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The X-Files
Frasier
Ironside
True Detective
Saturday Night Live
Adam-12
Midi Première
Golden Globe Awards
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
My Three Sons
Champs-Elysées
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Daniel Boone
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Spécial cinéma
Intimate Portrait
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
ABC Afterschool Special
ABC Afterschool Special
Mr. Scorsese
Numéro un
Taxi Driver
Medical Center
Julia
La semaine des 4 Julie
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
The Oscars
Beach House
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
HBO First Look
Mayberry R.F.D.
Mayberry R.F.D.
Lo + plus
Inside Man
Ghost Story
Elysium
Goldene Kamera
Flightplan
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
The Mauritanian
Beau geste
Rove
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
The Silence of the Lambs
Contact
Maverick
Nim's Island
The Accused
Carnage
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Little Man Tate
Panic Room
The Blood of Others
Menace on the Mountain
The Directors
Shadows and Fog
Echoes of a Summer
Sommersby
Hollywood’s Children
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
Motherhood
Anna and the King
A Private Life
Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence
Jodie Foster, Hollywood Under the Skin
NYAD
Candleshoe
Freaky Friday
Nell
The Paul Lynde Show
The Early Show
Harty
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Catchfire
Bugsy Malone
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster
The Emmy Awards
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Hotel Artemis
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Jodie Promo
Becoming Iconic
A Very Long Engagement
The Addams Family
The Beaver
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Stop Calling Me Baby!
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
Paper Moon
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
Shooting 'Panic Room'
Mickey's 50
Five Corners
Cinefile: Reel Women
Movies Are My Life
Siesta
Svengali
Tom Sawyer
The Brave One
Early Directors on Directing
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Making 'Taxi Driver'
O'Hara's Wife
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The Hotel New Hampshire
Napoleon and Samantha
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Kansas City Bomber
Abby Singer
Carny
Love, Antosha
Foxes
Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning
One Little Indian
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
Cérémonie des César
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Mesmerized
Scorsese's Women
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Inside the Actors Studio
Grease Day USA
Kung Fu
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Stealing Home
The True Story of Hannibal
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World
Celebrities Uncensored
Hinckley
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
Jodie Foster, une histoire française
100 Films and a Funeral
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs
A Look Back with Jodie Foster
Everest: The Death Zone
All About Bette
It Was a Wonderful Life
