Jodie Foster
Acting
- Born:
- 1962-11-19
- Place of birth:
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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). She 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. Foster's sexual orientation became the subject of public discussion in 1991 when publications such as OutWeek and The Village Voice, protesting against the alleged homophobia and transphobia in The Silence of the Lambs, claimed she was a lesbian. She publicly acknowledged her 14-year relationship with Cydney Bernard in 2007 in a speech at The Hollywood Reporter's "Women in Entertainment" breakfast honoring her. In 2013, she addressed her decision to come out in a speech after receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 70th Golden Globe Awards, which led many news outlets to describe her as gay. Some sources noted that she did not use the words "gay" or "lesbian" in her speech.
Known For
Filmography
Hexed
Breakdown: 1975
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Mr. Scorsese
A Private Life
Smartare än hjärnan
Henry Fonda for President
Hinckley
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Jodie Foster, une histoire française
NYAD
Beau geste
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin
The Mauritanian
La semaine des 4 Julie
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Love, Antosha
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Becoming Iconic
Hotel Artemis
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A
Quotidien
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
True Detective
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
Elysium
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Carnage
The Beaver
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
Motherhood
Early Directors on Directing
Nim's Island
100 Films and a Funeral
The Brave One
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
The Graham Norton Show
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Inside Man
Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster
The Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning
The Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence
Flightplan
The True Story of Hannibal
A Very Long Engagement
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
A Look Back with Jodie Foster
Shooting 'Panic Room'
Abby Singer
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Celebrities Uncensored
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Panic Room
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Anna and the King
The Early Show
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Rove
Making 'Taxi Driver'
The Directors
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Everest: The Death Zone
Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World
Contact
The Daily Show
Lo + plus
Cinefile: Reel Women
Jodie Promo
Nell
Inside the Actors Studio
All About Bette
Maverick
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Intimate Portrait
Frasier
The X-Files
Sommersby
It Was a Wonderful Life
HBO First Look
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Shadows and Fog
Little Man Tate
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
The Silence of the Lambs
Catchfire
The Simpsons
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
The Accused
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Stealing Home
Movies Are My Life
Siesta
Five Corners
Mesmerized
The Blood of Others
The Hotel New Hampshire
Goldene Kamera
Harty
Svengali
Hollywood’s Children
Champs-Elysées
O'Hara's Wife
Carny
Foxes
Mickey's 50
Grease Day USA
The South Bank Show
Candleshoe
Beach House
Stop Calling Me Baby!
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Freaky Friday
Bugsy Malone
Cérémonie des César
Taxi Driver
Echoes of a Summer
Saturday Night Live
Numéro un
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Midi Première
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Spécial cinéma
Paper Moon
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The Addams Family
One Little Indian
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Tom Sawyer
Kung Fu
ABC Afterschool Special
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
Ghost Story
The Paul Lynde Show
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
Kansas City Bomber
Napoleon and Samantha
Film '72
The Partridge Family
Menace on the Mountain
Medical Center
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Mayberry R.F.D.
Adam-12
Julia
Ironside
Daniel Boone
My Three Sons
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
The Oscars
The Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary