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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 19, 1962
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
- Jody Foster
- Alicia Christian Foster
- Jodi Foster
- 乔迪·福斯特
- جودی فاستر
Jodie Foster
6.3 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
4.0
Narrator (voice)
Breakdown: 1975
2025
8.1
Self
Mr. Scorsese
2025
6.0
Lilian Steiner
A Private Life
2025
9.0
Self (archive footage)
Hinckley
2024
6.0
Self
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
2024
6.0
Self
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023
0.0
Jodie Foster, une histoire française
2023
7.1
Bonnie Stoll
NYAD
2023
1.0
Self
Beau geste
2023
6.6
Self (archive footage)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
Credits
Breakdown: 1975
as Narrator (voice)
2025
4.0
Mr. Scorsese
as Self
2025
8.1
A Private Life
as Lilian Steiner
2025
6.0
Hinckley
as Self (archive footage)
2024
9.0
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
as Self
2024
6.0
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2023
6.0
Jodie Foster, une histoire française
2023
0.0
NYAD
as Bonnie Stoll
2023
7.1
Beau geste
as Self
2023
1.0
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
as Self (archive footage)
2022
6.6
Jodie Foster - Hollywood under the skin
as Self (archive footage)
2021
7.5
The Mauritanian
as Nancy Hollander
2021
7.4
La semaine des 4 Julie
as Self - Guest
2020
2.0
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
Love, Antosha
as Self
2019
7.4
🎬
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Actress and Director
2019
0.0
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
7.2
Becoming Iconic
as Self
2018
5.2
Hotel Artemis
as Jean Thomas / Nurse
2018
6.1
Quotidien
as Self - Guest
2016
5.4
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Scorsese's Women
as Mother
2014
0.0
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
as Self – Host
2014
6.5
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
True Detective
as Liz Danvers
2014
8.3
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
as Narrator (voice)
2013
0.0
Elysium
as Delacourt
2013
6.5
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
7.6
Carnage
as Penelope Longstreet
2011
7.2
The Beaver
as Meredith Black
2011
6.4
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
as Self
2010
7.1
Motherhood
as Jodie Foster
2009
5.0
Early Directors on Directing
as Self
2009
0.0
Nim's Island
as Alexandra Rover
2008
5.9
100 Films and a Funeral
as Self
2007
7.3
The Brave One
as Erica Bain
2007
6.6
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
as Self
2007
6.7
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
as Self
2006
6.5
Inside Man
as Madeleine White
2006
7.4
Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster
as Self
2005
6.5
Flightplan
as Kyle
2005
6.5
🎬
The True Story of Hannibal
as Self
2005
6.7
A Very Long Engagement
as Elodie Gordes
2004
7.3
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
as Self
2004
7.0
🎬
A Look Back with Jodie Foster
as Self
2004
0.0
Shooting 'Panic Room'
as Self
2004
6.8
Abby Singer
as Jodie Foster (uncredited)
2003
6.3
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
Celebrities Uncensored
as Self
2003
4.0
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
as Self
2002
6.5
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
as Sister Assumpta
2002
6.6
Panic Room
as Meg Altman
2002
6.8
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
as Self
2001
7.3
Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence
as Self
2001
0.0
Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning
as Self
2001
0.0
Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs
as Self
2001
0.0
Anna and the King
as Anna
1999
6.8
The Early Show
as Self - Guest
1999
6.2
Rove
as Self
1999
8.0
Making 'Taxi Driver'
as Self
1999
6.9
The Directors
as Self
1999
5.8
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
as Self - Host
1998
8.2
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
as Self / Host
1998
0.0
Everest: The Death Zone
as Narrator (voice)
1998
6.5
🎬
Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World
as Narrator (voice)
1998
0.0
Contact
as Ellie Arroway
1997
7.4
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Lo + plus
as Self - Guest
1995
0.0
Cinefile: Reel Women
as Self
1995
0.0
🎬
Jodie Promo
as (Archival)
1995
0.0
Nell
as Nell Kellty
1994
6.6
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
All About Bette
as Self
1994
7.6
Maverick
as Annabelle Bransford
1994
6.9
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Self (archive footage)
1994
7.0
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
4.5
Frasier
as Marlene (voice)
1993
7.7
The X-Files
as 'Betty' (voice)
1993
8.4
Sommersby
as Laurel Sommersby
1993
6.3
🎬
It Was a Wonderful Life
as Narrator (voice)
1993
0.0
HBO First Look
1992
4.9
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
Shadows and Fog
as Prostitute
1991
6.7
Little Man Tate
as Dede Tate
1991
6.5
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
as Self
1991
6.0
The Silence of the Lambs
as Clarice Starling
1991
8.3
Catchfire
as Anne Benton
1990
5.3
The Simpsons
as Maggie Roark (voice)
1989
8.0
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
as Narrator (voice)
1989
0.0
The Accused
as Sarah Tobias
1988
7.1
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
Stealing Home
as Katie Chandler
1988
6.3
Movies Are My Life
as Self
1988
6.0
Siesta
as Nancy
1987
5.1
Five Corners
as Linda Komkowski
1987
5.8
Mesmerized
as Victoria
1985
4.7
The Blood of Others
as Hélène
1984
5.0
The Hotel New Hampshire
as Franny Berry
1984
5.6
🎬
Goldene Kamera
as Self
1984
5.7
🎬
Harty
as Self
1983
6.0
Svengali
as Zoe Alexander
1983
4.8
Hollywood’s Children
as Self (archive footage)
1982
0.0
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
O'Hara's Wife
as Barbara O'Hara
1982
3.5
Carny
as Donna
1980
6.2
Foxes
as Jeanie
1980
5.9
Mickey's 50
as Self
1978
0.0
Grease Day USA
as Self
1978
8.0
Candleshoe
as Casey
1977
6.9
Beach House
as Teresina
1977
6.3
Stop Calling Me Baby!
as Isabelle Tristan, aka 'Fleur bleue'
1977
3.8
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
as Rynn Jacobs
1976
7.0
Freaky Friday
as Annabel Andrews
1976
6.1
Bugsy Malone
as Tallulah
1976
6.6
Cérémonie des César
1976
3.5
Taxi Driver
as Iris
1976
8.1
Echoes of a Summer
as Deirdre
1976
5.1
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Numéro un
as Self
1975
6.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
Midi Première
as Self
1975
10.0
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
as Audrey
1974
6.9
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974
0.0
Paper Moon
as Addie Pray
1974
6.5
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
as Liberty Cole
1974
6.4
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
as Elizabeth Henderson
1973
5.0
The Addams Family
as Pugsley Addams (voice)
1973
7.3
One Little Indian
as Martha
1973
6.3
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
Tom Sawyer
as Becky Thatcher
1973
6.4
Kung Fu
as Alethea Patricia Ingram
1972
7.7
ABC Afterschool Special
as Sharon Lee
1972
6.4
ABC Afterschool Special
as Sue
1972
6.4
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
as Pugsley Addams (Voice)
1972
8.0
Ghost Story
as Judy
1972
7.1
The Paul Lynde Show
1972
5.0
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
as Pugsley Addams (voice)
1972
7.7
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
as Anne Chan
1972
5.4
Kansas City Bomber
as Rita
1972
5.9
Napoleon and Samantha
as Samantha
1972
6.2
The Partridge Family
as Julie Lawrence
1970
6.8
Menace on the Mountain
as Suellen McIver
1970
4.0
Medical Center
1969
6.1
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
as Joey Kelly
1969
6.0
Mayberry R.F.D.
as Fairy
1968
5.7
Mayberry R.F.D.
as Little Girl
1968
5.7
Adam-12
as Mary Bennett
1968
7.0
Julia
1968
6.0
Ironside
1967
6.8
Daniel Boone
as Rachel Pickett
1964
7.0
My Three Sons
as Priscilla
1960
6.5
Bonanza
as Bluebird
1959
7.5
Gunsmoke
as Susan Sadler
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Patricia
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Marieanne
1955
6.6
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
The Emmy Awards
as Self - Winner
1949
7.9
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
🎬
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
as Self
N/A
0.0