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.
Acting (88 movies)
Taxi Driver
1976
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
Inside Man
2006
Sommersby
1993
Anna and the King
1999
Contact
1997
Nell
1994
A Very Long Engagement
2004
Panic Room
2002
Nim's Island
2008
The Brave One
2007
The Accused
1988
The Blood of Others
1984
Little Man Tate
1991
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
Bugsy Malone
1976
Foxes
1980
Carny
1980
Stealing Home
1988
Flightplan
2005
Maverick
1994
Catchfire
1990
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
2013
Napoleon and Samantha
1972
Siesta
1987
Candleshoe
1977
Cinefile: Reel Women
1995
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974
Freaky Friday
1976
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
One Little Indian
1973
Everest: The Death Zone
1998
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
2002
Elysium
2013
The Beaver
2011
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
1976
Five Corners
1987
Carnage
2011
NYAD
2023
Mesmerized
1985
Beach House
1977
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
1974
Echoes of a Summer
1976
Svengali
1983
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
1998
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999
Stop Calling Me Baby!
1977
Jodie Foster, une histoire française
2023
Kansas City Bomber
1972
Shadows and Fog
1991
Tom Sawyer
1973
Becoming Iconic
2018
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
1989
Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World
1998
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2001
All About Bette
1994
Movies Are My Life
1988
Menace on the Mountain
1970
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
2024
Hinckley
2024
Hotel Artemis
2018
Motherhood
2009
100 Films and a Funeral
2007
Abby Singer
2003
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster
2005
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
Grease Day USA
1978
O'Hara's Wife
1982
Love, Antosha
2019
Mickey's 50
1978
The Mauritanian
2021
Shooting 'Panic Room'
2004
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
1991
Hollywood’s Children
1982
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
2010
Jodie Foster, Hollywood Under the Skin
2021
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
A Private Life
2025
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
1972
Early Directors on Directing
2009
Scorsese's Women
2014
Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning
2001
Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs
2001
Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence
2001
Directing (7 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Hands of Time | 1978 | Writer |
| Nell | 1994 | Producer |
| Home for the Holidays | 1995 | Producer |
| The Baby Dance | 1998 | Executive Producer |
| Waking the Dead | 2000 | Executive Producer |
| The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys | 2002 | Producer |
| The Brave One | 2007 | Executive Producer |
| Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Alok | 2024 | Executive Producer |