Foster in Paris at the César Awards 2011.
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Birth name | Alicia Christian Foster | Birth date | November 19, 1962(age 48) | Place of birth | Los Angeles, California, United States | Education | Bachelor's degree (magna cum laude) | Alma mater | Yale University | Occupation | Actress, producer, director | Years active | 1966 � present | Children | Charles Bernard Foster, born on July 20, 1998(age 12) Kit Bernard Foster, born on September 29, 2001(age 9) |
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Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, film director, producer as well as being a former child actress.
Foster began acting in commercials at three years old, and her first significant role came 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. Also that year, she starred in the cult film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her fourth Academy Award nomination for playing a hermit in Nell (1994). Other popular films include Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007), and Nim's Island (2008).
Foster's films have spanned a wide variety of genres, from family films to horror. In addition to her two Academy Awards she has won three Bafta Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a People's Choice Award, and has received two Emmy nominations.
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List of acting credits in film and television
Current projects : |
Year |
Title |
Role |
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1968 |
Mayberry, R.F.D. |
bit parts in 2 episodes |
TV series |
1970 |
Menace on the Mountain |
Suellen McIver |
TV |
1970 |
Daniel Boone |
Rachel |
TV series, season 6, episode 24: "Bringing Up Josh" |
1970 |
Adam 12 |
Mary |
TV series, season 3, episode 6: "Log 55 Missing Girl" |
1972 |
My Sister Hank |
Henrietta "Hank" Bennett |
TV |
1972 |
Napoleon and Samantha |
Samantha |
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1972 |
Kansas City Bomber |
Rita |
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1972 |
TheAmazing Chan and the Chan Clan |
Anne Chan (voice) |
TV series |
1973 |
Rookie of the Year |
Sharon Lee |
TV |
1973 |
Alexander, Alexander |
Sue |
TV |
1973 |
Partridge Family |
Julie |
TV series |
1973 |
Tom Sawyer |
Becky Thatcher |
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1973 |
Kung Fu |
Alethea Patricia Ingram |
TV series |
1973 |
One Little Indian |
Martha McIver |
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1973 |
TheAddams FamilyThe Addams Family (1973 animated series) |
Pugsley (voice) |
TV series |
1974 |
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
Audrey |
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1974 |
Smile, Jenny, You're Dead |
Liberty Cole |
TV |
1974 |
Paper Moon |
Addie Loggins |
TV series |
1975 |
TheSecret Life of T.K. Dearingnolink=1 |
T.K. Dearing |
TV |
1976 |
Taxi Driver |
Iris Steensma |
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (also for Bugsy Malone) Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated-Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress |
1976 |
Echoes of a Summer |
Deirdre Striden |
aka The Last Castle |
1976 |
Bugsy Malone |
Tallulah |
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (also for Taxi Driver) |
1976 |
TheLittle Girl Who Lives Down the Lane |
Rynn Jacobs |
Saturn Award for Best Actress |
1976 |
Freaky Friday |
Annabel Andrews |
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress � Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
1977 |
Moi, fleur bleue |
Isabelle Tristan (aka Fleur bleue) |
aka Stop Calling Me Baby |
1977 |
Casotto |
Teresina Fedeli |
aka Beach House |
1977 |
Candleshoe |
Casey Brown |
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1980 |
Foxes |
Jeanie |
Nominated-Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Major Motion Picture |
1980 |
Carny |
Donna |
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1982 |
O'Hara's Wife |
Barbara O'Hara |
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1983 |
Svengali |
Zoe Alexander |
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1984 |
TheHotel New HampshireThe Hotel New Hampshire (film) |
Frannie Berry |
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1984 |
TheBlood of Othersnolink=1 |
Hélène Bertrand |
aka Le Sang des autres |
1986 |
Mesmerized |
Victoria Thompson |
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1987 |
Five Corners |
Linda |
Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female |
1987 |
Siesta |
Nancy |
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1988 |
Stealing Home |
Katie Chandler |
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1988 |
TheAccusedThe Accused (1988 film) |
Sarah Tobias |
Academy Award for Best Actress David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress � Motion Picture Drama (tied with Sigourney Weaver for Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey and Shirley MacLaine for Madame Sousatzka) Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress National Board of Review Award for Best Actress Nominated-BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role |
1990 |
Catchfire |
Anne Benton |
aka Backtrack |
1991 |
TheSilence of the LambsThe Silence of the Lambs (film) |
Clarice Starling |
Academy Award for Best Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress � Motion Picture Drama Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated-Saturn Award for Best Actress |
1991 |
Little Man Tate |
Dede Tate |
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1992 |
Shadows and Fog |
Prostitute |
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1993 |
Sommersby |
Laurel Sommersby |
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1994 |
Maverick |
Mrs. Annabelle Bransford |
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1994 |
Nell |
Nell Kellty |
David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated-Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress � Motion Picture Drama |
1997 |
TheX-Files |
Betty (voice) |
TV series, episode "Never Again" |
1997 |
Contact |
Dr. Eleanor Arroway |
Saturn Award for Best Actress Nominated-Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress � Motion Picture Drama |
1998 |
TheUttmostnolink=1 |
Herself |
Documentary |
1998 |
Psycho |
Woman in background |
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1999 |
Anna and the King |
Anna Leonowens |
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2002 |
TheDangerous Lives of Altar Boys |
Sister Assumpta |
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2002 |
Panic Room |
Meg Altman |
Nominated-Saturn Award for Best Actress |
2002 |
Tusker |
Minnie |
Animated voice over |
2003 |
Abby Singer |
Herself |
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2004 |
AVery Long Engagement |
Elodie Gordes |
Un long dimanche de fiançailles |
2005 |
Flightplan |
Kyle Pratt |
Nominated-Saturn Award for Best Actress |
2005 |
Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony |
Herself |
Guest appearance in episode 8 |
2006 |
Inside Man |
Madeline White |
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2007 |
TheBrave OneThe Brave One (2007 film) |
Erica Bain |
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress � Motion Picture Drama Nominated-Irish Film Award for Best International Actress Nominated-St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress |
2008 |
Nim's Island |
Alexandra Rover |
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2009 |
TheSimpsons |
Maggie Simpson (voice) |
TV series, episode: "Four Great Women and a Manicure" |
2011 |
TheBeaverThe Beaver (film) |
Meredith Black |
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2011 |
Elysium |
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Academy Award for Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress � Motion Picture Drama
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role