Jodie Foster
Acting
🎂 1962-11-19
Alicia Christian 'Jodie' Foster 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(159)
Maggie Roark (voice)
1989
Self
1996
Self
2014
Liz Danvers
2014
Self
2007
Marlene (voice)
1993
Bluebird
1959
'Betty' (voice)
1993
Self
2019
Self - Host
1975
1967
Mary Bennett
1968
Self - Nominee
1944
Priscilla
1960
Rachel Pickett
1964
Self
2014
Susan Sadler
1955
Patricia
1955
Marieanne
1955
Self
2003
Self
1982
Self - Guest
1988
Self
1975
1969
1992
Self
2003
Iris
1976
Self
1975
Delacourt
2013
Self
1993
Self
1953
Self
1984
Self
1974
Fairy
1968
Little Girl
1968
Self
1975
Sharon Lee
1972
Sue
1972
Teresina
1977
Annabel Andrews
1976
Self - Guest
1995
Ellie Arroway
1997
1992
Madeleine White
2006
Lilian Steiner
2025
Self
2023
Kyle
2005
Self - Guest
2020
Joey Kelly
1969
Meg Altman
2002
Judy
1972
Annabelle Bransford
1994
Self
1999
Self (archive footage)
2022
Pugsley Addams (voice)
1972
Katie Chandler
1988
Clarice Starling
1991
1968
Self
2023
Nancy Hollander
2021
Elodie Gordes
2004
Sarah Tobias
1988
Laurel Sommersby
1993
Self
1999
Self
1973
Erica Bain
2007
Self - Host
1998
Penelope Longstreet
2011
Anna
1999
Dede Tate
1991
Jeanie
1980
Alexandra Rover
2008
Franny Berry
1984
Jean Thomas / Nurse
2018
Bonnie Stoll
2023
Self
2005
Meredith Black
2011
Isabelle Tristan, aka 'Fleur bleue'
1977
Self
2004
Sister Assumpta
2002
Jodie Foster
2009
Casey
1977
Anne Benton
1990
Donna
1980
Pugsley Addams (voice)
1973
Self
1978
Tallulah
1976
(archive footage)
2012
Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
Jodie Foster (uncredited)
2003
Audrey
1974
Self (archive footage)
1994
1972
Self
2019
Nell Kellty
1994
Self
1983
Prostitute
1991
Addie Pray
1974
Becky Thatcher
1973
Mother
2014
Clarice Starling
2007
Self
2024
Elizabeth Henderson
1973
Rynn Jacobs
1976
Deirdre
1976
Self
2010
Self
2007
Hélène
1984
Anne Chan
1972
Pugsley Addams (Voice)
1972
Samantha
1972
Self
1978
Suellen McIver
1970
Linda Komkowski
1987
Zoe Alexander
1983
1976
Victoria
1985
Self
Nancy
1987
Self - Winner
1949
Self (archive footage)
1982
Self
2006
Self
1991
Self (archive footage)
2021
Self
2001
Martha
1973
Liberty Cole
1974
Self
2007
Barbara O'Hara
1982
Self
2002
Self
1994
Self - Guest
1999
Self
2018
Rita
1972
Self – Host
2014
Self - Actress and Director
2019
Narrator (voice)
1989
Narrator (voice)
2013
Alethea Patricia Ingram
1972
Self
2009
Self
1994
Self (archive footage)
2007
Self
2004
Self
1988
Narrator (voice)
1998
Self / Host
1998
Narrator (voice)
1998
Self
1995
1976
Narrator (voice)
1993
Self
2003
Self
2005
Self (archive footage)
2024
Self
1999
(Archival)
1995
Self
2001
Self
2001
2023
Self
2001
