Jodie Foster 1962 62
Jodie Foster 1962 62
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.
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2025 A Private Life as Lilian Steiner
2025 Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary as Self
2024 Hinckley as Self (archive footage)
2024 Disney Legends Awards Ceremony as Self
2024 Alok Executive Producer
2023 Jodie Foster, une histoire française
2023 NYAD as Bonnie Stoll
2021 Jodie Foster, Hollywood Under the Skin as Self (archive footage)
2021 The Mauritanian as Nancy Hollander
2019 Love, Antosha as Self
2019 Mouthpiece Thanks
2019 Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America as Self - Actress and Director
2018 Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché as Self - Narrator (voice) Executive Producer
2018 Becoming Iconic as Self
2018 Hotel Artemis as Jean Thomas / Nurse
2016 Money Monster Director
2014 Early Directors on Directing as Self
2014 Scorsese's Women as Mother
2014 Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women as Self – Host
2014 True Detective as Liz Danvers Executive Producer
2013 Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array as Narrator (voice)
2013 Elysium as Delacourt
2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011 Carnage as Penelope Longstreet
2011 The Beaver as Meredith Black Director
2010 Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs as Self
2009 Motherhood as Jodie Foster
2008 Nim's Island as Alexandra Rover
2007 100 Films and a Funeral as Self
2007 The Brave One as Erica Bain Executive Producer
2007 Girl 27 as Self (archive footage)
2007 AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
2007 Breaking the Silence: Picture-in-Picture Commentary as Clarice Starling
2006 Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
2006 Inside Man as Madeleine White
2005 Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster as Self
2005 Flightplan as Kyle
2005 The True Story of Hannibal as Self
2004 A Very Long Engagement as Elodie Gordes
2004 The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing as Self
2004 Shooting 'Panic Room' as Self
2003 Abby Singer as Jodie Foster (uncredited)
2002 Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
2002 The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys as Sister Assumpta Producer
2002 Panic Room as Meg Altman
2001 Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
2001 Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning as Self
2001 Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs as Self
2001 Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence as Self
2000 Waking the Dead Executive Producer
1999 Anna and the King as Anna
1999 George Romero's Golden Tales 2 Director
1999 Making 'Taxi Driver' as Self
1998 The Baby Dance Executive Producer
1998 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies as Self / Host
1998 Everest: The Death Zone as Narrator (voice)
1998 Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World as Narrator (voice)
1997 Contact as Ellie Arroway
1995 Home for the Holidays Director, Producer
1995 Cinefile: Reel Women as Self
1994 Nell as Nell Kellty Producer
1994 All About Bette as Self
1994 Maverick as Annabelle Bransford
1994 Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)
1993 Sommersby as Laurel Sommersby
1993 It Was a Wonderful Life as Narrator (voice)
1991 Shadows and Fog as Prostitute
1991 Little Man Tate as Dede Tate Director
1991 The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
1991 The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling
1990 Catchfire as Anne Benton
1989 Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife as Narrator (voice)
1988 The Accused as Sarah Tobias
1988 Stealing Home as Katie Chandler
1988 Movies Are My Life as Self
1987 Siesta as Nancy
1987 Five Corners as Linda Komkowski
1985 Mesmerized as Victoria
1985 Stephen King's Golden Tales Director
1984 The Blood of Others as Hélène
1984 The Hotel New Hampshire as Franny Berry
1983 Svengali as Zoe Alexander
1982 Hollywood’s Children as Self (archive footage)
1982 O'Hara's Wife as Barbara O'Hara
1980 Carny as Donna
1980 Foxes as Jeanie
1978 Mickey's 50 as Self
1978 Grease Day USA as Self
1978 The Hands of Time Director, Writer
1977 Candleshoe as Casey
1977 Beach House as Teresina
1977 Stop Calling Me Baby! as Isabelle Tristan
1976 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane as Rynn Jacobs
1976 Freaky Friday as Annabel Andrews
1976 Bugsy Malone as Tallulah
1976 Taxi Driver as Iris
1976 Echoes of a Summer as Deirdre
1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Audrey
1974 Smile Jenny, You're Dead as Liberty Cole
1973 One Little Indian as Martha
1973 Tom Sawyer as Becky Thatcher
1972 Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family as Pugsley Addams (Voice)
1972 Kansas City Bomber as Rita
1972 Napoleon and Samantha as Samantha
1970 Menace on the Mountain as Suellen McIver
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7.34 Fantasy 3
7.09 Crime 11
7.05 Mystery 9
6.97 Music 3
6.67 Science Fiction 3
6.61 Documentary 25
6.60 Western 2
6.59 History 7
6.54 Family 11
6.49 Thriller 17
6.42 Drama 48
6.40 Comedy 15
6.34 Adventure 4
6.28 Action 6
6.11 Romance 12
5.79 TV Movie 10
5.43 War 3
5.10 Horror 1