Jodie Foster

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.

Cast

Taxi Driver

(Iris)

The Silence of the Lambs

(Clarice Starling)

Inside Man

(Madeleine White)

Sommersby

(Laurel Sommersby)

Anna and the King

(Anna)

Contact

(Ellie Arroway)

Nell

(Nell Kellty)

A Very Long Engagement

(Elodie Gordes)

Panic Room

(Meg Altman)

Nim's Island

(Alexandra Rover)

The Brave One

(Erica Bain)

The Accused

(Sarah Tobias)

The Blood of Others

(Hélène)

Little Man Tate

(Dede Tate)

The Hotel New Hampshire

(Franny Berry)

Bugsy Malone

(Tallulah)

Foxes

(Jeanie)

Carny

(Donna)

Stealing Home

(Katie Chandler)

Flightplan

(Kyle)

Maverick

(Annabelle Bransford)

Catchfire

(Anne Benton)

Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array

(Narrator (voice))

Napoleon and Samantha

(Samantha)

Siesta

(Nancy)

Candleshoe

(Casey)

Cinefile: Reel Women

(Self)

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

(Audrey)

Freaky Friday

(Annabel Andrews)

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

(Self)

One Little Indian

(Martha)

Everest: The Death Zone

(Narrator (voice))

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

(Sister Assumpta)

Elysium

(Delacourt)

The Beaver

(Meredith Black)

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

(Rynn Jacobs)

Five Corners

(Linda Komkowski)

Carnage

(Penelope Longstreet)

NYAD

(Bonnie Stoll)

Mesmerized

(Victoria)

Beach House

(Teresina)

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

(Liberty Cole)

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

((archive footage))

Echoes of a Summer

(Deirdre)

Svengali

(Zoe Alexander)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies

(Self / Host)

Girl 27

(Self (archive footage))

Making 'Taxi Driver'

(Self)

It Was a Wonderful Life

(Narrator (voice))

Stop Calling Me Baby!

(Isabelle Tristan)

Jodie Foster, une histoire française

Kansas City Bomber

(Rita)

Shadows and Fog

(Prostitute)

Tom Sawyer

(Becky Thatcher)

Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary

(Self)

Becoming Iconic

(Self)

Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife

(Narrator (voice))

Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World

(Narrator (voice))

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition

(Self)

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

(Self)

All About Bette

(Self)

Movies Are My Life

(Self)

Menace on the Mountain

(Suellen McIver)

Disney Legends Awards Ceremony

(Self)

Hinckley

(Self (archive footage))

Hotel Artemis

(Jean Thomas / Nurse)

Motherhood

(Jodie Foster)

100 Films and a Funeral

(Self)

Abby Singer

(Jodie Foster (uncredited))

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

(Self - Narrator (voice))

Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster

(Self)

Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'

(Self)

Grease Day USA

(Self)

O'Hara's Wife

(Barbara O'Hara)

Love, Antosha

(Self)

Mickey's 50

(Self)

The Mauritanian

(Nancy Hollander)

Shooting 'Panic Room'

(Self)

The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

(Self)

Hollywood’s Children

(Self (archive footage))

The True Story of Hannibal

(Self)

Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

(Self – Host)

Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs

(Self)

Jodie Foster, Hollywood Under the Skin

(Self (archive footage))

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

(Self (archive footage))

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

(Self)

Vie privée

(Lilian Steiner)

Inside the Actors Studio

(Self)

The Simpsons

(Maggie Roark (voice))

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

(Self)

Kung Fu

The New Scooby-Doo Movies

(Pugsley Addams (voice))

My Three Sons

(Priscilla)

The Daily Show

(Self)

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Frasier

(Marlene (voice))

Medical Center

Gunsmoke

(Susan Sadler)

The Early Show

(Self - Guest)

The X-Files

('Betty' (voice))

Golden Globe Awards

(Self - Winner)

La semaine des 4 Julie

(Self - Guest)

Rove

(Self)

Ironside

Celebrities Uncensored

(Self)

Daniel Boone

(Rachel Pickett)

Julia

The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan

(Anne Chan)

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

(Elizabeth Henderson)

The Paul Lynde Show

Harty

(Self)

The Oscars

(Self)

ABC Afterschool Special

(Sharon Lee)

Ghost Story

(Judy)

Paper Moon

(Addie Pray)

Saturday Night Live

(Self - Host)

The Addams Family

(Pugsley Addams (voice))

Intimate Portrait

(Self)

Mayberry R.F.D.

(Fairy)

Gunsmoke

(Patricia)

Gunsmoke

(Marieanne)

Adam-12

(Mary Bennett)

The Directors

(Self)

ABC Afterschool Special

(Sue)

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

(Joey Kelly)

Mayberry R.F.D.

(Little Girl)

The Graham Norton Show

(Self)

Bonanza

(Bluebird)

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

(Self)

The Kelly Clarkson Show

(Self)

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

(Self)

Cérémonie des César

Spécial cinéma

(Self)

Beau geste

(Self)

Goldene Kamera Verleihung

(Self)

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

(Self)

True Detective

(Liz Danvers)

Numéro un

(Self)

Champs-Elysées

(Self)

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

(Self (archive footage))

Midi Première

(Self)

Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter

(Self)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

(Self - Host)

Lo + plus

(Self - Guest)

HBO First Look