Famous actress Jodie Foster full name was Alicia Christian Jodie Foster. She was an American actress and also a filmmaker. She was born in the year 1962 on November 19 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was the youngest daughter of Evelyn Ella Brandy (mother) and Lucius Fisher Foster III (father). Her father worked as Air Force Lieutenant Colonel also. She had English, Irish and German heritage.
Jodie Foster parent’s marriage life ended before she was born. She had 3 older siblings. She also had 3 half-brothers from her father’s earlier marriage. She was officially named as Alicia. She was a gifted girl who had learned to read at the age of three. Her siblings had begun calling her Jodie and the name had stuck.
Jodie Foster had learned the “Lycée Français de” Los Angeles. It was a French language prep school. Her fluency in French enabled her to act in French films. She also dubbed herself in the French language versions of most of her English language films.
Jodie Foster had delivered the valedictorian address for the school’s French division at her graduation in 1980. She then attended to the Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. There she got majored in African American literature.
Jodie Foster wrote her thesis on Toni Morrison. It was done under the guidance of American literary critic “Henry Louis Gates, Jr.”. She graduated magna cum laude in 1985. Foster returned to Yale in 1993 to address the graduation class. She received an honorary doctor of Fine Arts degree in 1997.
Actress Jodie Foster career began in 1965. Her career began with a “Coppertone television advertisement” appearance, at the age of three.
In 1973, Jodie Foster appeared in the musical Tom Sawyer. In 1974, she appeared in Martin Scorsese’s comedy drama “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”. Her breakthrough had come with the Scorsese’s psychological thriller Taxi Driver in the year 1976.
In the film “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” stars Jodie Foster as a child prostitute. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this role. In 1976, she had two roles as a teenager. She appeared in the comedy musical “Bugsy Malone”.
Jodie Foster became a popular teen idol by starring in Disney’s Freaky Friday in 1976 and Candleshoe in 1977.
Jodie Foster also starred in Carny in 1980 and Foxes in 1980. In 1988, she appeared in the legal drama “The Accused”. In the movie, she portrayed a rape survivor and her performance was critically acclaimed. She won her second Academy Award for Best Actress for this role.
In 1991, Jodie Foster appeared in the psychological horror film “The Silence of the Lambs”. She portrayed FBI agent Clarice Starling in the movie. She had made her debut as a film director as the same year with the “Little Man Tate”.
Jodie Foster had founded her own production company name Egg Pictures in the year 1992.
Jodie Foster starred as the titular character in the 1994 film “Nell.” This performance earned her 4th Academy Award nomination.
In the 1990s, Jodie Foster appeared in several successful romantic dramas. These included Sommersby in 1993, Maverick in 1994, a Western comedy, and Contact in 1997, a science fiction movie. She also acted in the period drama Anna and the King in 1999.
Jodie Foster had some career setbacks in the early 2000s. This includes the cancellation of a film project and the closing down of her production company. Jodie Foster starred in 4 commercially successful thrillers also. Those are Panic Room in 2002, Flight Plan in 2005, Inside Man in 2006 and The Brave One in 2007.
In the 2010s, Jodie Foster has focused on directing with films.
Jodie Foster was also starred in the films Carnage in the year 2011, Elysium in the year 2013, Hotel Artemis in the year 2018 and The Mauritanian in the year 2021.
Jodie Foster got 3 British Academy Film Awards, 3 Golden Globe Awards and the honorary Cecil B. DeMile Award. She had been nominated for the primetime Emmy Award for her work as a director.
In 1992 and 2023, People magazine declared Foster as the world’s most beautiful woman. Additionally, she was ranked 23rd in Channel 4’s list of the 100 greatest movie stars of all time. In 2016, she was honored the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures.
