Jodie foster biography imdb american
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Jodie Foster
Birth Name
Alicia Christian Foster
Date of Birth
19 November 1962
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Foster began acting in commercials at the age of three, and rose to prominence at the age of 13 in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen prostitute Iris, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989, for playing a rape victim in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs, receiving international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her fourth Academy Award nomination for playing a hermit in Nell (1994). Her other best-known work includes Contact (1997), The Brave One (2007), and Carnage (2011). Foster made her directorial debut in 1991 with Little Man Tate; she also dire
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Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie hyrbil Driver (1976). This role, for which she received an Academy Award nomination in the "Best Supporting Actress" category, marked a breakthrough in her career. In 1980 she graduated as the best of her class from the College Lycée Français and began to study English Literature at Yale University, from where she graduated magna cum laude in 1985. One tragic moment in her life was March 30th, 1981 when John Warnock Hinkley Jr. attempted to assassinate the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Hinkley was obsessed with Jodie and the movie Taxi Driver (1976), in which Travis Bickle, played bygd Robert De Niro, tried to shoot presidential candidate Palantine. Despite the fact that Jodie never took acting lessons, she received t
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Jodie Foster
1962-present
Latest News: Jodie Foster Wins Golden Globe for Best Actress
Jodie Foster is now a five-time Golden Globe winner. The 62-year-old secured the award for Best Actress in a Limited/Anthology Series or TV movie at the 82nd awards ceremony on January 5 for her role as detective Liz Danvers in the HBO series True Detective: Night Country.
During her acceptance speech, Foster thanked her cast and crew, as well as the
the Indigenous people of Northern Alaska whose stories helped the crime drama take shape. “They changed my life and hopefully they’ll change yours,” she said. The actor also dedicated her win to her two sons, Kit and Charlie. “Hopefully you understand the joy that comes from doing really hard, meaningful good work.”
Who Is Jodie Foster?
Jodie Foster is an award-winning actor and Emmy-nominated director. She received her first Oscar nomination at age 14 for her role as a child prostitute in Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver and h