Jodie Foster
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Hinckley as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 · Disney Legends Awards Ceremony as Self
- 2023 · Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2023 · Jodie Foster, une histoire française as
- 2023 · NYAD as Bonnie Stoll
- 2023 · Beau geste as Self
- 2022 · Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Jodie Foster, Hollywood Under the Skin as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · The Mauritanian as Nancy Hollander
- 2020 · La semaine des 4 Julie as Self - Guest
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · Love, Antosha as Self
- 2018 · Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Becoming Iconic as Self
- 2018 · Hotel Artemis as Jean Thomas / Nurse
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women as Self – Host
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · True Detective as Liz Danvers
- 2013 · Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · Elysium as Delacourt
- 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2011 · Carnage as Penelope Longstreet
- 2011 · The Beaver as Meredith Black
- 2010 · Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs as Self
- 2009 · Motherhood as Jodie Foster
- 2008 · Nim's Island as Alexandra Rover
- 2007 · 100 Films and a Funeral as Self
- 2007 · The Brave One as Erica Bain
- 2007 · Girl 27 as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
- 2006 · Inside Man as Madeleine White
- 2005 · Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster as Self
- 2005 · Flightplan as Kyle
- 2005 · The True Story of Hannibal as Self
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Elodie Gordes
- 2004 · The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing as Self
- 2004 · Shooting 'Panic Room' as Self
- 2003 · Abby Singer as Jodie Foster (uncredited)
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · Celebrities Uncensored as Self
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2002 · Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
- 2002 · The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys as Sister Assumpta
- 2002 · Panic Room as Meg Altman
- 2001 · Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
- 1999 · Anna and the King as Anna
- 1999 · The Early Show as Self - Guest
- 1999 · Rove as Self
- 1999 · Making 'Taxi Driver' as Self
- 1999 · The Directors as Self
- 1998 · AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Self - Host
- 1998 · AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies as Self / Host
- 1998 · Everest: The Death Zone as Narrator (voice)
- 1998 · Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World as Narrator (voice)
- 1997 · Contact as Ellie Arroway
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1995 · Lo + plus as Self - Guest
- 1995 · Cinefile: Reel Women as Self
- 1994 · Nell as Nell Kellty
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1994 · All About Bette as Self
- 1994 · Maverick as Annabelle Bransford
- 1994 · Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)
- 1993 · Intimate Portrait as Self
- 1993 · Frasier as Marlene (voice)
- 1993 · The X-Files as 'Betty' (voice)
- 1993 · Sommersby as Laurel Sommersby
- 1993 · It Was a Wonderful Life as Narrator (voice)
- 1992 · HBO First Look as
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1991 · Shadows and Fog as Prostitute
- 1991 · Little Man Tate as Dede Tate
- 1991 · The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
- 1991 · The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling
- 1990 · Catchfire as Anne Benton
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Maggie Roark (voice)
- 1989 · Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife as Narrator (voice)
- 1988 · The Accused as Sarah Tobias
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1988 · Stealing Home as Katie Chandler
- 1987 · Siesta as Nancy
- 1987 · Five Corners as Linda Komkowski
- 1985 · Mesmerized as Victoria
- 1984 · The Blood of Others as Hélène
- 1984 · The Hotel New Hampshire as Franny Berry
- 1983 · Harty as Self
- 1983 · Svengali as Zoe Alexander
- 1982 · Hollywood’s Children as Self (archive footage)
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1982 · O'Hara's Wife as Barbara O'Hara
- 1980 · Carny as Donna
- 1980 · Foxes as Jeanie
- 1978 · Mickey's 50 as Self
- 1978 · Movies Are My Life as Self
- 1978 · Grease Day USA as Self
- 1977 · Candleshoe as Casey
- 1977 · Beach House as Teresina
- 1977 · Stop Calling Me Baby! as Isabelle Tristan
- 1976 · The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane as Rynn Jacobs
- 1976 · Freaky Friday as Annabel Andrews
- 1976 · Bugsy Malone as Tallulah
- 1976 · Cérémonie des César as
- 1976 · Taxi Driver as Iris
- 1976 · Echoes of a Summer as Deirdre
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Numéro un as Self
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1975 · Midi Première as Self
- 1974 · Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Audrey
- 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self
- 1974 · Paper Moon as Addie Pray
- Future · Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary as Self
- 1974 · Smile Jenny, You're Dead as Liberty Cole
- 1973 · Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Elizabeth Henderson
- 1973 · The Addams Family as Pugsley Addams (voice)
- 1973 · One Little Indian as Martha
- 1973 · Tom Sawyer as Becky Thatcher
- 1972 · Kung Fu as
- 1972 · ABC Afterschool Special as Sharon Lee
- 1972 · ABC Afterschool Special as Sue
- 1972 · Ghost Story as Judy
- 1972 · The Paul Lynde Show as
- 1972 · The New Scooby-Doo Movies as Pugsley Addams (voice)
- 1972 · The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan as Anne Chan
- 1972 · Kansas City Bomber as Rita
- 1972 · Napoleon and Samantha as Samantha
- 1970 · Menace on the Mountain as Suellen McIver
- 1969 · Medical Center as
- 1969 · The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Joey Kelly
- 1968 · Mayberry R.F.D. as Fairy
- 1968 · Mayberry R.F.D. as Little Girl
- 1968 · Adam-12 as Mary Bennett
- 1968 · Julia as
- 1967 · Ironside as
- 1966 · Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self
- 1964 · Daniel Boone as Rachel Pickett
- 1960 · My Three Sons as Priscilla
- 1959 · Bonanza as Bluebird
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Susan Sadler
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Marieanne
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Patricia
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
- Future · Vie privée as Lilian Steiner