Cast
Jodie Foster
Acting
Cast
Jodie Foster
Known for
Acting
Born
1962-11-19
From
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also known as Jody Foster, Alicia Christian Foster, Jodi 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). 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.
Taxi Driver
as Iris
Contact
as Ellie Arroway
Inside Man
as Madeleine White
Elysium
as Delacourt
Panic Room
as Meg Altman
Flightplan
as Kyle
The Silence of the Lambs
as Clarice Starling
Maverick
as Annabelle Bransford
Carnage
as Penelope Longstreet
A Private Life
as Lilian Steiner
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Sommersby
as Laurel Sommersby
The Mauritanian
as Nancy Hollander
The Brave One
as Erica Bain
Catchfire
as Anne Benton
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
as Rynn Jacobs
Hotel Artemis
as Jean Thomas / Nurse
The Accused
as Sarah Tobias
Freaky Friday
as Annabel Andrews
Little Man Tate
as Dede Tate
Breakdown: 1975
as Narrator (voice)
NYAD
as Bonnie Stoll
Nim's Island
as Alexandra Rover
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
as Self
The Beaver
as Meredith Black
Nell
as Nell Kellty
A Very Long Engagement
as Elodie Gordes
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
as Audrey
Bugsy Malone
as Tallulah
Beach House
as Teresina
Tom Sawyer
as Becky Thatcher
Foxes
as Jeanie
Motherhood
as Jodie Foster
Anna and the King
as Anna
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Self (archive footage)
The Hotel New Hampshire
as Franny Berry
Carny
as Donna
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Love, Antosha
as Self
Shadows and Fog
as Prostitute
Candleshoe
as Casey
Five Corners
as Linda Komkowski
Stealing Home
as Katie Chandler
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
as Self
Svengali
as Zoe Alexander
Napoleon and Samantha
as Samantha
Mickey's 50
as Self
Mesmerized
as Victoria
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
as Sister Assumpta
The Blood of Others
as Hélène
The Fabulous Allan Carr
as Self (archive)
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
as Pugsley Addams (Voice)
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
as Self
Kansas City Bomber
as Rita
Hollywood’s Children
as Self (archive footage)
Siesta
as Nancy
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
as Self – Host
Abby Singer
as Jodie Foster (uncredited)
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
as Self
O'Hara's Wife
as Barbara O'Hara
Henry Fonda for President
as Self (archive footage)
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
as Liberty Cole
One Little Indian
as Martha
Menace on the Mountain
as Suellen McIver
Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin
as Self (archive footage)
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
as Self
The Making of '...And God Spoke'
as Self (archive footage)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
as Self / Host
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
as Self
Hinckley
as Self (archive footage)
Echoes of a Summer
as Deirdre
Scorsese's Women
as Mother
Shooting 'Panic Room'
as Self
The True Story of Hannibal
as Self
Movies Are My Life
as Self
Becoming Iconic
as Self
Grease Day USA
as Self
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
as Self
Cinefile: Reel Women
as Self
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
as Narrator (voice)
Early Directors on Directing
as Self
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
as Self
The Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs
as Self
Making 'Taxi Driver'
as Self
All About Bette
as Self
100 Films and a Funeral
as Self
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
as Self
Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World
as Narrator (voice)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Actress and Director
Stop Calling Me Baby!
as Isabelle Tristan, aka 'Fleur bleue'
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A
as Self
The Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence
as Self
It Was a Wonderful Life
as Narrator (voice)
Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster
as Self
Jodie Promo
as (Archival)
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
as Narrator (voice)
Jodie Foster, une histoire française
The Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning
as Self
A Look Back with Jodie Foster
as Self
Everest: The Death Zone
as Narrator (voice)