Jodie Foster

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1962-11-19 (61 years old)

Place of Birth Los Angeles, California, USA

Also Known As Jody Foster, Alicia Christian Foster, Jodi Foster, 조디 포스터, ジョディ・フォスター, Τζόντι Φόστερ, 朱迪·福斯特, 乔迪·福斯特

Jodie Foster

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). 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.

Known For

Actor

2024
Hinckley

as Self (archive footage)

2023
NYAD

as Bonnie Stoll

2023
Beau geste

as Self

2022
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

as Self (archive footage)

2021
Jodie Foster, Hollywood Under the Skin

as Self (archive footage)

2021
The Mauritanian

as Nancy Hollander

2020
La semaine des 4 Julie

as Self - Guest

2019
2018
2018
Hotel Artemis

as Jean Thomas / Nurse

2014
True Detective

as Liz Danvers

2013
Elysium

as Delacourt

2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)

2011
Carnage

as Penelope Longstreet

2011
The Beaver

as Meredith Black

2009
Motherhood

as Jodie Foster

2008
Nim's Island

as Alexandra Rover

2007
The Brave One

as Erica Bain

2007
Girl 27

as Self (archive footage)

2006
Inside Man

as Madeleine White

2005
Flightplan

as Kyle

2004
A Very Long Engagement

as Elodie Gordes

2003
Abby Singer

as Jodie Foster (uncredited)

2003
2002
2002
Panic Room

as Meg Altman

1999
1999
The Early Show

as Self - Guest

1999
Rove

as Self

1999
1998
Everest: The Death Zone

as Narrator (voice)

1997
Contact

as Ellie Arroway

1996
1995
Lo + plus

as Self - Guest

1994
Nell

as Nell Kellty

1994
1994
Maverick

as Annabelle Bransford

1993
Sommersby

as Laurel Sommersby

1993
It Was a Wonderful Life

as Narrator (voice)

1993
1993
Frasier

as Marlene (voice)

1993
The X-Files

as 'Betty' (voice)

1991
Shadows and Fog

as Prostitute

1991
Little Man Tate

as Dede Tate

1991
The Silence of the Lambs

as Clarice Starling

1990
Catchfire

as Anne Benton

1989
1989
The Simpsons

as Maggie Roark (voice)

1988
The Accused

as Sarah Tobias

1988
Stealing Home

as Katie Chandler

1987
Siesta

as Nancy

1987
Five Corners

as Linda Komkowski

1985
Mesmerized

as Victoria

1984
1984
The Hotel New Hampshire

as Franny Berry

1983
Svengali

as Zoe Alexander

1983
Harty

as Self

1982
Hollywood’s Children

as Self (archive footage)

1982
O'Hara's Wife

as Barbara O'Hara

1982
1980
Carny

as Donna

1980
Foxes

as Jeanie

1978
Mickey's 50

as Self

1978
1978
1977
Candleshoe

as Casey

1977
Beach House

as Teresina

1977
Stop Calling Me Baby!

as Isabelle Tristan

1976
Freaky Friday

as Annabel Andrews

1976
Bugsy Malone

as Tallulah

1976
Taxi Driver

as Iris

1976
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

1975
Numéro un

as Self

1975
1974
Smile Jenny, You're Dead

as Liberty Cole

1974
1974
Paper Moon

as Addie Pray

1973
1973
Tom Sawyer

as Becky Thatcher

1973
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

as Elizabeth Henderson

1973
The Addams Family

as Pugsley Addams (voice)

1972
1972
1972
1972
Ghost Story

as Judy

1972
The New Scooby-Doo Movies

as Pugsley Addams (voice)

1970
Menace on the Mountain

as Suellen McIver

1968
1968
Mayberry R.F.D.

as Little Girl

1968
Adam-12

as Mary Bennett

1968
1964
Daniel Boone

as Rachel Pickett

1960
My Three Sons

as Priscilla

1959
Bonanza

as Bluebird

1955
Gunsmoke

as Susan Sadler

1955
Gunsmoke

as Marieanne

1955
Gunsmoke

as Patricia

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Winner

Director

2020
2016
Money Monster

as Director

2013
House of Cards

as Director

2013
2011
The Beaver

as Director

2011
Black Mirror

as Director

1995
1991
Little Man Tate

as Director

1984
1978
The Hands of Time

as Director

Producer

The Beast in Me

as Executive Producer

2024
Alok

as Executive Producer

2014
True Detective

as Executive Producer

2007
The Brave One

as Executive Producer

2000
Waking the Dead

as Executive Producer

1998
The Baby Dance

as Executive Producer

1995
1994
Nell

as Producer

Writer

1978

Crew

2019
Mouthpiece

as Thanks