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Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster

Birthday: 1962-11-19 | Place of Birth: 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). 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2026
A Private Life

as    Lilian Steiner

2025
Breakdown: 1975

as    Narrator (voice)

2024
True Detective Night Country Part 1

as    Chief Liz Danvers

2024
True Detective: Night Country

as    Chief Liz Danvers

2024
Hinckley

as    Self (archive footage)

2024
2023
NYAD

as    Bonnie Stoll

2021
The Mauritanian

as    Nancy Hollander

2021
Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin

as    Self (archive footage)

2021
Jodie F(r)oster

as    herself / snake (segment: snakes on a plane)

2019
Love, Antosha

as    Self

2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America

as    Self - Actress and Director

2018
Hotel Artemis

as    Jean Thomas / Nurse

2018
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2014
True Detective

as    Liz Danvers

2014
Scorsese's Women

as    Mother

2014
2013
Elysium

as    Delacourt

2011
The Beaver

as    Meredith Black

2011
Carnage

as    Penelope Longstreet

2009
2008
Nim's Island

as    Alexandra Rover

2007
The Brave One

as    Erica Bain

2007
100 Films and a Funeral

as    Self