Jodie Foster
- Acting
- November 19, 1962 · 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). 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Hexed · Queen Celeste (Voice)
- Breakdown: 1975 · Narrator (Voice)
- Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies · Self
- The Beast in Me · Executive producer
- Mr. Scorsese · Self
- A Private Life · Lilian Steiner
- Smartare än hjärnan · Self
- Henry Fonda for President · Self
- Hinckley · Self
- Alok · Executive producer
- Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Jodie Foster, une histoire française · Self
- NYAD · Bonnie Stoll
- Beau geste · Self
- Il était une fois Champs-Élysées · Self
- Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin · Self
- The Mauritanian · Nancy Hollander
- Tales from the Loop · Director
- La semaine des 4 Julie · Self
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Self
- Love, Antosha · Self
- Mouthpiece · Thanks
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America · Self
- Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché · Self, Executive producer
- Becoming Iconic · Self
- Hotel Artemis · Jean Thomas / Nurse
- The Fabulous Allan Carr · Self
- Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A · Self
- Quotidien · Self
- Money Monster · Director
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · Self
- Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women · Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- True Detective · Liz Danvers, Executive producer
- Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array · Narrator (Voice)
- Elysium · Delacourt
- Orange Is the New Black · Director
- House of Cards · Director
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen · (archive footage)
- Black Mirror · Director
- Carnage · Penelope Longstreet
- The Beaver · Meredith Black, Director
- Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs · Self
- Motherhood · Jodie Foster
- Early Directors on Directing · Self
- Nim's Island · Alexandra Rover
- 100 Films and a Funeral · Self
- The Brave One · Erica Bain, Executive producer
- AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition · Self
- The Graham Norton Show · Self
- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters · Self
- Inside Man · Madeleine White
- Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster · Self
- The Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning · Self
- The Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs · Self
- The Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence · Self
- Flightplan · Kyle
- The True Story of Hannibal · Self
- A Very Long Engagement · Elodie Gordes
- The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing · Self
- A Look Back with Jodie Foster · Self
- Shooting 'Panic Room' · Self
- Abby Singer · Jodie Foster (uncredited)
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show · Self
- Celebrities Uncensored · Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' · Self
- The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys · Sister Assumpta, Producer
- Panic Room · Meg Altman
- Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' · Self
- Waking the Dead · Executive producer
- Anna and the King · Anna
- The Early Show · Self
- Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special · Self
- Rove · Self
- Making 'Taxi Driver' · Self
- The Directors · Self
- The Baby Dance · Executive producer