Jodie Foster
Acting
🎂 1962-11-19
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.
Cast credits(158)
Self
1996
Self
2019
Self
2014
Self
2007
Self
1982
Maggie Roark (voice)
1989
Self - Guest
1988
Self - Guest
2020
Fairy
1968
Little Girl
1968
1992
'Betty' (voice)
1993
Marlene (voice)
1993
1992
Self
2003
Self
2003
Self
1975
Bluebird
1959
Self
1974
Liz Danvers
2014
Self - Winner
1944
Sharon Lee
1972
Sue
1972
Self
1975
1969
Self
1975
Self
2014
Rachel Pickett
1964
Self - Host
1975
Self
1993
Self
2023
Self
1953
Self
1983
Self
1999
Self
1999
1967
Mary Bennett
1968
Self - Winner
1949
Joey Kelly
1969
Addie Pray
1974
Priscilla
1960
1968
Self
2023
1972
Susan Sadler
1955
Patricia
1955
Marieanne
1955
Self
1973
Pugsley Addams (voice)
1972
Iris
1976
Self - Guest
1999
Elizabeth Henderson
1973
Self
1984
Judy
1972
Pugsley Addams (voice)
1973
Ellie Arroway
1997
Self (archive footage)
2022
Delacourt
2013
Madeleine White
2006
1976
Self - Host
1998
Self
1994
Meg Altman
2002
Teresina
1977
Clarice Starling
1991
Kyle
2005
Nancy Hollander
2021
Sarah Tobias
1988
Annabelle Bransford
1994
Elodie Gordes
2004
Self - Guest
1995
Anne Chan
1972
Laurel Sommersby
1993
Bonnie Stoll
2023
Erica Bain
2007
Jean Thomas / Nurse
2018
Alethea Patricia Ingram
1972
Dede Tate
1991
Annabel Andrews
1976
Self
2003
Alexandra Rover
2008
Nell Kellty
1994
Audrey
1974
Penelope Longstreet
2011
Rynn Jacobs
1976
Tallulah
1976
Prostitute
1991
Anna
1999
Casey
1977
Anne Benton
1990
Self
2019
(archive footage)
2012
Meredith Black
2011
Donna
1980
Jodie Foster
2009
Franny Berry
1984
Sister Assumpta
2002
Becky Thatcher
1973
Katie Chandler
1988
Victoria
1985
Hélène
1984
Linda Komkowski
1987
Self (archive footage)
1994
Martha
1973
Self
2004
Samantha
1972
Jeanie
1980
Rita
1972
Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
Self
2007
Jodie Foster (uncredited)
2003
Nancy
1987
Pugsley Addams (Voice)
1972
Self
2018
Self
2024
Lilian Steiner
2025
Self
2001
Barbara O'Hara
1982
Suellen McIver
1970
Self
1978
Self
2002
Self
2005
Clarice Starling
2007
Self (archive footage)
2021
Narrator (voice)
1989
Deirdre
1976
Self – Host
2014
Self
2004
Self
1994
Self
2006
Self (archive footage)
1982
Self / Host
1998
Narrator (voice)
2013
Self
1999
Zoe Alexander
1983
Narrator (voice)
1998
Self
1978
Liberty Cole
1974
Self
2010
Self (archive footage)
2007
Narrator (voice)
1998
Self
1988
Self (archive footage)
2024
Self
2009
Self
1991
Isabelle Tristan
1977
Self - Actress and Director
2019
Mother
2014
Self
2007
Self
1995
Self
2001
Self
2001
Self
Narrator (voice)
1993
Self
2001
2023
Self
2005
(Archival)
1995
