Jodie Foster

Acting · 5.2 popularity

Age

Movies

100

Born: November 19, 1962
From: 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.

Works

100 films

Taxi Driver

19768.1

Contact

19977.4

Inside Man

20067.4

Panic Room

20026.8

Elysium

20136.5

A Private Life

20255.5

The Silence of the Lambs

19918.3

The Brave One

20076.6

Flightplan

20056.4

The Accused

19887.1

Sommersby

19936.4

The Mauritanian

20217.4

Maverick

19946.9

Nim's Island

20085.9

Little Man Tate

19916.6

Hotel Artemis

20186.1

The Beaver

20116.4

Nell

19946.5

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

19747.0

Freaky Friday

19766.1

Carnage

20117.2

Anna and the King

19996.8

A Very Long Engagement

20047.3

NYAD

20237.1

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

19767.0

Stealing Home

19886.3

Love, Antosha

20197.4

Bugsy Malone

19766.6

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Catchfire

19905.3

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

20026.7

Breakdown: 1975

20256.8

Tom Sawyer

19736.4

Shadows and Fog

19916.7

Beach House

19776.3

Candleshoe

19776.9

O'Hara's Wife

19825.7

Five Corners

19875.9

The Hotel New Hampshire

19845.7

Motherhood

20095.0

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

20047.0

Abby Singer

20036.8

Making 'Taxi Driver'

19997.0

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America

2019

Mickey's 50

19789.0

Foxes

19806.0

100 Films and a Funeral

20077.3

Napoleon and Samantha

19726.3

Carny

19806.2

2024 Disney Legends Awards Ceremony

20246.0

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

2025

One Little Indian

19736.3

Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family

19726.5

Kansas City Bomber

19725.8

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

20187.3

The Fabulous Allan Carr

20174.5

The Blood of Others

19845.3

Siesta

19875.3

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

20066.5

Grease Day USA

19788.3

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

19947.0

All About Bette

19947.5

Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin

20217.5

Mesmerized

19854.8

Henry Fonda for President

20257.0

Echoes of a Summer

19765.4

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies

19988.0

Menace on the Mountain

19705.3

Hollywood’s Children

19829.0

Scorsese's Women

2014

The True Story of Hannibal

20057.0

Cinefile: Reel Women

1995

Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs

20107.3

Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World

199810.0

The Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs

2005

The Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning

2005

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

19746.8

Hinckley

20245.0

It Was a Wonderful Life

19928.0

Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A

2016

Shooting 'Panic Room'

20047.0

Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

20146.5

Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife

1989

Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary

2026

Svengali

19835.0

Movies Are My Life

19886.8

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

20017.3

Early Directors on Directing

2009

The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

19916.0

Stop Calling Me Baby!

19774.7

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition

20076.7

Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster

20056.5

Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'

20026.5

Everest: The Death Zone

19986.9

The Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence

20051.0

Becoming Iconic

20185.3

A Look Back with Jodie Foster

2004

Jodie Foster, une histoire française

2023

Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array

2013

Jodie Promo

1995