Jodie Foster

Known for ActingBorn 1962-11-19 (age 63)Los Angeles, California, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World

Spécial cinéma

Hollywood’s Children

Mickey's 50

Midi Première

True Detective

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

Black Mirror

Mr. Scorsese

The X-Files

The Silence of the Lambs

House of Cards

Grease Day USA

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies

It Was a Wonderful Life

The Simpsons

Taxi Driver

Harty

Orange Is the New Black

Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Love, Antosha

Frasier

The Mauritanian

Inside the Actors Studio

Rove

Inside Man

The Beast in Me

All About Bette

Kung Fu

The New Scooby-Doo Movies

Contact

The Emmy Awards

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

100 Films and a Funeral

A Very Long Engagement

Carnage

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

NYAD

The Graham Norton Show

Henry Fonda for President

Numéro un

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Tales from the Loop

Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs

Ghost Story

The Addams Family

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson