Jodie Foster
Acting · Born 1962-11-19 in 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…
Filmography
- Taxi Driver as Iris
- The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling
- Inside Man as Madeleine White
- Sommersby as Laurel Sommersby
- Anna and the King as Anna
- Contact as Ellie Arroway
- Nell as Nell Kellty
- A Very Long Engagement as Elodie Gordes
- Panic Room as Meg Altman
- Nim's Island as Alexandra Rover