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