Jodie Foster
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
161
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 Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The X-Files
True Detective
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Saturday Night Live
The Graham Norton Show
Frasier
Bonanza
Ironside
Golden Globe Awards
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Adam-12
Beach House
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Taxi Driver
Champs-Elysées
My Three Sons
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Quotidien
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Daniel Boone
Medical Center
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Flightplan
Midi Première
Intimate Portrait
La semaine des 4 Julie
Spécial cinéma
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
ABC Afterschool Special
ABC Afterschool Special
A Private Life
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
The Oscars
Goldene Kamera
Contact
Inside Man
HBO First Look
Numéro un
Beau geste
The Partridge Family
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Maverick
Julia
Mayberry R.F.D.
Mayberry R.F.D.
Ghost Story
Lo + plus
Elysium
Panic Room
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
Hotel Artemis
Rove
Abby Singer
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Freaky Friday
Motherhood
The Accused
The Mauritanian
Bugsy Malone
Nell
Becoming Iconic
The Silence of the Lambs
Catchfire
Five Corners
Tom Sawyer
Sommersby
Carny
Harty
Nim's Island
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Anna and the King
Mr. Scorsese
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Breakdown: 1975
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
A Very Long Engagement
Little Man Tate
The Directors
Mickey's 50
The Beaver
Making 'Taxi Driver'
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Shadows and Fog
The Emmy Awards
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence
Mesmerized
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Stop Calling Me Baby!
Kansas City Bomber
NYAD
Svengali
Carnage
The Brave One
The Addams Family
Love, Antosha
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
The Early Show
Paper Moon
The Blood of Others
The Paul Lynde Show
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Jodie Promo
Echoes of a Summer
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Early Directors on Directing
Hollywood’s Children
Jodie Foster - Hollywood under the skin
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
O'Hara's Wife
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
One Little Indian
Napoleon and Samantha
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
Candleshoe
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
Cinefile: Reel Women
Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning
The Hotel New Hampshire
Shooting 'Panic Room'
Foxes
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster
Stealing Home
Cérémonie des César
Siesta
Scorsese's Women
It Was a Wonderful Life
Movies Are My Life
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
Menace on the Mountain
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
Kung Fu
The True Story of Hannibal
Inside the Actors Studio
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Grease Day USA
Celebrities Uncensored
All About Bette
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
100 Films and a Funeral
Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
Everest: The Death Zone
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
Hinckley
A Look Back with Jodie Foster
Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs
Jodie Foster, une histoire française
