Jodie Foster

Birthday:

11/19/1962

Place of birth:

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 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.



Credits

Jodie Foster, une histoire française (2023)
NYAD (2023)
Bonnie Stoll
Jodie Foster, Hollywood Under the Skin (2021)
Jodie Foster (image d'archive)
The Mauritanian (2021)
Nancy Hollander
Showbiz Kids (2020)
Self (archive footage)
Love, Antosha (2019)
Self
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Becoming Iconic (2018)
Self
Hotel Artemis (2018)
Jean Thomas / Nurse
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014)
Self – Host
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array (2013)
Narrator (voice)
Elysium (2013)
Delacourt
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
(archive footage)
Carnage (2011)
Penelope Longstreet
The Beaver (2011)
Meredith Black
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs (2010)
Self
Motherhood (2009)
Jodie Foster
Nim's Island (2008)
Alexandra Rover
100 Films and a Funeral (2007)
Self
The Brave One (2007)
Erica Bain
Girl 27 (2007)
Self (archive footage)
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition (2007)
Self
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)
Self
Inside Man (2006)
Madeleine White
Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster (2005)
Self
Flightplan (2005)
Kyle
The True Story of Hannibal (2005)
Self
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Elodie Gordes
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)
Self
Shooting 'Panic Room' (2004)
Self
Abby Singer (2003)
Self
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' (2002)
Self
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)
Sister Assumpta
Panic Room (2002)
Meg Altman
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' (2001)
Self
Anna and the King (1999)
Anna
Making 'Taxi Driver' (1999)
Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998)
Self / Host
Everest: The Death Zone (1998)
Narrator (voice)
Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World (1998)
Narrator (voice)
Contact (1997)
Ellie Arroway
Cinefile: Reel Women (1995)
Self
Nell (1994)
Nell Kellty
All About Bette (1994)
Self
Maverick (1994)
Annabelle Bransford
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! (1994)
Self (archive footage)
Sommersby (1993)
Laurel Sommersby
It Was a Wonderful Life (1993)
Narrator (voice)
Shadows and Fog (1991)
Prostitute
Little Man Tate (1991)
Dede Tate
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991)
Self
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Clarice M. Starling
Catchfire (1990)
Anne Benton
The Accused (1988)
Sarah Tobias
Stealing Home (1988)
Katie Chandler
Siesta (1987)
Nancy
Five Corners (1987)
Linda Komkowski
Mesmerized (1985)
Victoria
The Blood of Others (1984)
Hélène
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Franny
Svengali (1983)
Zoe Alexander
Hollywood’s Children (1982)
Self (archive footage)
O'Hara's Wife (1982)
Barbara O'Hara
Carny (1980)
Donna
Foxes (1980)
Jeanie
Mickey's 50 (1978)
Self
Movies Are My Life (1978)
Self
Grease Day USA (1978)
Self
Candleshoe (1977)
Casey
Beach House (1977)
Teresina
Stop Calling Me Baby! (1977)
Isabelle Tristan
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
Rynn Jacobs
Freaky Friday (1976)
Annabel Andrews
Bugsy Malone (1976)
Tallulah
Taxi Driver (1976)
Iris Steensma
Echoes of a Summer (1976)
Deirdre
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Audrey
Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974)
Liberty Cole
One Little Indian (1973)
Martha
Tom Sawyer (1973)
Becky Thatcher
Kansas City Bomber (1972)
Rita
Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
Samantha
Menace on the Mountain (1970)
Suellen McIver
Untitled "Anthony Hopkins" documentary ()
Self
Alok (2024)
Executive Producer
Mouthpiece (2019)
Thanks
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
Executive Producer
Money Monster (2016)
Director
The Beaver (2011)
Director
The Brave One (2007)
Executive Producer
Waking the Dead (2000)
Executive Producer
Home for the Holidays (1995)
Director
Home for the Holidays (1995)
Producer
Nell (1994)
Producer
Little Man Tate (1991)
Director
Stephen King's Golden Tales (1985)
Director
The Hands of Time (1978)
Director
The Hands of Time (1978)
Writer