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 Festivals Honorary Palme dOr 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 Scorseses comedydrama Alice Doesnt 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 Nims 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