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
• Contact as Ellie Arroway
• A Very Long Engagement as Elodie Gordes
• The Accused as Sarah Tobias
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Audrey
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane as Rynn Jacobs
• Carnage as Penelope Longstreet
• NYAD as Bonnie Stoll

TV

• The Simpsons as Maggie Roark (voice)
• Kung Fu as Alethea Patricia Ingram
• The New Scooby-Doo Movies as Pugsley Addams (voice)
• Frasier as Marlene (voice)
• The X-Files as 'Betty' (voice)
• True Detective as Liz Danvers
• Inside the Actors Studio as Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• My Three Sons as Priscilla
• The Daily Show as Self