Actor

Jodie Foster

November 19, 1962 · Los Angeles, California, USA

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).

Notable work

8.3
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
as Clarice Starling
8.1
Taxi Driver (1976)
as Iris
8
The Simpsons (1989)
as Maggie Roark (voice)
6.5
Elysium (2013)
as Delacourt
7.4
Inside Man (2006)
as Madeleine White
8.3
Black Mirror (2011)
Director
6.8
Panic Room (2002)
as Meg Altman
7.4
Contact (1997)
as Ellie Arroway
8.3
True Detective (2014)
as Liz Danvers
8.4
The X-Files (1993)
as 'Betty' (voice)
8
House of Cards (2013)
Director
7.2
Carnage (2011)
as Penelope Longstreet

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