Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster Quick Details:

• • Full Name: Alicia Christian “Jodie” Foster
  • Date of Birth: November 19, 1962
  • Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California
  • Profession: Actress, Director, Child Model
  • Parents: Lucius Fisher Foster III (father), Evelyn Ella “Brandy” née Almond (mother)
  • Notable Roles:
    • Academy Award-winning role as Clarice Starling in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs
    • Rynn Jacobs in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
    • Chief Liz Danvers in True Detective: Night Country
    • Meg Altman in David Fincher’s Panic Room

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• Awards:
  • Foster has been nominated for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, an Independent Spirit Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award
  • She has won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, once for her role in The Accused and once for her role in The Silence of the Lambs.
• Trivia:
  • She began her career as a child model 
  • Since Foster is fluent in French, she dubs French language versions of her films and acts in French cinema.

Jodie Foster's Early Life and Background:

• Born on November 19, 1962, in Los Angeles, California, to Evelyn Ella “Brandy” née Almond and wealthy businessman Lucius Fisher Foster III, Foster has three siblings, Lucinda, Constance (“Connie”), and Lucius (“Buddy”), and three half-siblings from her father’s first marriage. 

• She attended the Lycée Français de Los Angeles, a French preparatory school where she learned to speak fluent French and was valedictorian. She graduated magna cum laude at Yale University in 1985 during a sabbatical from acting. She later received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Yale in 1997

Jodie Foster's Entry into the Acting World:

• First feature film role as Samantha in Napoleon and Samantha
• Her breakthrough role as Iris in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver at age 13 earned her an Academy Award nomination.

Jodie Foster's Hollywood Career Highlights

• Sarah Tobias in The Accused in 1988, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress
• Chief Liz Danvers in the acclaimed fourth season of the anthology television series True Detective: Night Country, created by filmmaker Issa Lopez
• Judy in the episode House of Evil from the anthology horror television series Ghost Story, aka Circle of Fear, executive produced by William Castle
• Voiced the character of Pugsley Addams in the 1973 animated television series The Addams Family.
• Voiced the character of Betty in the X-Files episode Never Again in 1999. 

Beyond Acting: Other Professional Endeavors of Foster's

• Directed the Do Not Open This Box episode of George Romero’s Tales from the Darkside television series. 
• First female director of a Black Mirror episode with the fourth series episode Arkangel.