Jodie Foster

Name: Jodie Foster
Date of Birth: November 19, 1962
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California

Biography: However, that she had made nearly fifty film and television appearances before she attended college, makes her relatively placid sojourn there remarkable. She began her career at age three as the Copp...( read more

)ertone Girl in a television commercial and debuted as a television actress in a 1968 episode of Mayberry R.F.D. Her first film appearance came in the 1970 TV movie Menace on the Mountain. Foster made a number of Disney movies, including Napoleon and Samantha (1972), One Little Indian (1973), Freaky Friday (1976) and Candleshoe (1977). She also co-starred with Christopher Connelly in the 1974 TV series version of Paper Moon and alongside Martin Sheen in the 1976 cult classic The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. As a teenager, Foster made several appearances on the French pop circuit as a singer. Commenting on her years as a child actress, which she describes as an "actor’s career", Foster has said that "it was very clear to me at a young age that I had to fight for my life and that if I didn’t, my life would get gobbled up and taken away from me".

At age 14, Jodie received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a preteen prostitute in Martin Scorsese's film, Taxi Driver opposite Robert De Niro. De Niro's character in Taxi Driver intended to assassinate a presidential candidate. Parenthetically, in 1981, John Hinckley, Jr. shot U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three other people. He claimed his motive was to impress Foster. His obsession with Foster came after repeated viewings of the film, and he stalked her while she attended Yale University. This has been an incident of intense discomfort for Foster, who has been known to walk out of interviews if Hinckley's name is even mentioned. The punk band Jodie Foster's Army is named in reference to Hinckley's actions.

Unlike child stars such as Shirley Temple or Tatum O'Neal, Foster successfully made the transition to adult roles, but not without initial difficulty. She gained significant weight while at Yale and, after several unsuccessful films post-Taxi Driver, was forced to audition for her role in The Accused. She won the part and the first of her two Golden Globes and Academy Awards as Best Actress for her role as a gang-rape survivor. She earned her second in what is arguably her most famous role, Clarice Starling, opposite Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, in the 1991 film, The Silence of the Lambs.

n 1997 she starred alongside Matthew Mcconaughey in the sci-fi movie Contact, based on the novel by scientist Carl Sagan. She portrayed a scientist searching for extra-terrestrial life in the SETI project. In 1998, an asteroid, 17744 Jodiefoster, was named in her honor.

By the 1990's, Foster began to branch out into other aspects of film besides acting. She made her directoral debut in 1991 with Little Man Tate, a critically acclaimed drama about a child prodigy, in which she also costarred. She also directed Home for the Holidays (1995), a black comedy starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.. In 1992, Foster founded a production company called Egg Pictures in Los Angeles, and she began working as a producer in 1994 with the acclaimed Nell, the story of young woman raised in an isolated place who has to return to civilization.

Like many American actors who are rarely seen promoting products in their own country, Foster has appeared in a number of commercials in Japan, mostly in the 1990s. These have included advertisements for the Honda Civic, Keri cosmetics, Mt. Rainier ice coffee, and the Pasona Temporary Agency.

After taking time away from the spotlight, Foster returned in the 2005 blockbuster Flightplan. Foster portrayed a woman whose daughter disappears on an airplane that Foster's character, an engineer, had helped to design. Foster's most recent film, Inside Man, a thriller co-starring Denzel Washington and Clive Owen, was released on March 24, 2006, and opened at #1 at the box office. Her next film will be The Brave One, a thriller that is being filmed in New York City, both in Manhattan and Brooklyn. It is directed by Neil Jordan and co-stars Terrence Howard. Commenting on her latest roles, Foster has said that she enjoys appearing in mainstream genre films that have a "real heart to them".

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Comments

avrilthoyyibah

I like ur story called The Flightplan.It is very interesting

posted 29 days ago
0cassie0

A fantastic performance in scilence of the lambs, especicaly at the end. We were all shaking in our seats when there was that part where you were in the dark.

posted 35 days ago
melbel81

i LOVE ur movie anna and the king. its my fave movie. it has just enough romance in it and just enough adventure and killing/shooting to suit my liking.

posted 48 days ago
FADELA

you are spiceal really
you are very great lady
thxx so much 4 evrything you do

posted 49 days ago
gih3

Jodie, your dad's great.
I followed ya both for along time.
He did good...G...

posted 51 days ago
stargazer4499

Hi, my favorite roles that you played was in Silence of the Lambs and Flightplan. Hope to see you in more films in the future.

posted 65 days ago
arenasa9

i like your acting in the movie Flightplan...en todas las peliculas en general.cuando vienes a sur america jajaja

posted 101 days ago
tomfeltongirl4evah

you were soooo cool on "Anna and the King" with Tom Felton! do you guys still keep in contact? if so e-mail me @ tomfeltongirl4evah@gmail.com 2 give me his e-mail if he has one.

posted 105 days ago
bb06dancingcats1

Hi i think you are really pretty and a really good actress. hope to hear back from you.

posted 121 days ago
salamisglory

Ziet er meestal wat ouderwets uit, maar wel een goeie actrice. Ze speelde goed in Silence of the Lambs (uiteraard), maar ook in Panic Room

posted 136 days ago

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