
Acting
Community Rating
6.4
TMDB estimate
Born
November 19, 1962 (age 63)
Born in
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). 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.

Taxi Driver
Iris
1976

Contact
Ellie Arroway
1997

Elysium
Delacourt
2013

Inside Man
Madeleine White
2006

Panic Room
Meg Altman
2002

A Private Life
Lilian Steiner
2025

Flightplan
Kyle
2005

The Silence of the Lambs
Clarice Starling
1991

Maverick
Annabelle Bransford
1994

The Brave One
Erica Bain
2007

Sommersby
Laurel Sommersby
1993

Carnage
Penelope Longstreet
2011

Nell
Nell Kellty
1994

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2012

The Beaver
Meredith Black
2011

NYAD
Bonnie Stoll
2023

Hotel Artemis
Jean Thomas / Nurse
2018

The Accused
Sarah Tobias
1988

Anna and the King
Anna
1999

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Self
2004