- Born
- Birth nameAlicia Christian Foster
- Nickname
- Jodie F
- Height5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
- Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received an Academy Award nomination in the "Best Supporting Actress" category, marked a breakthrough in her career. In 1980 she graduated as the best of her class from the College Lycée Français and began to study English Literature at Yale University, from where she graduated magna cum laude in 1985. One tragic moment in her life was March 30th, 1981 when John Warnock Hinkley Jr. attempted to assassinate the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Hinkley was obsessed with Jodie and the movie Taxi Driver (1976), in which Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro, tried to shoot presidential candidate Palantine. Despite the fact that Jodie never took acting lessons, she received two Oscars before she was thirty years of age. She received her first award for her part as Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988) and the second one for her performance as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).- IMDb mini biography by: Mathias Peter Gabel
- SpouseAlexandra Hedison(April 19, 2014 - present)
- ChildrenKit Bernard Foster
- ParentsLucius Fisher Foster III
- RelativesBuddy Foster(Sibling)Cindy Foster Jones(Sibling)Connie Foster(Sibling)
- Husky voice
- Athletic figure
- As a child, she was attacked by a lion and carried briefly in its mouth while filming Disney's Napoleon and Samantha (1972).
- Fluent in French by age 14, she spoke her own lines in the film Stop Calling Me Baby! (1977), the film A Very Long Engagement (2004) and the film The Brave One (2007). She learned spanish at a young age. She was also fluent in Italian by age 18.
- Her sister, Connie Foster, was her stand-in during Taxi Driver (1976).
- Because she speaks perfect French, she makes the dubbing over her character's voice for most of her films released in France.
- Got the role of Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) after Michelle Pfeiffer turned the role down.
- Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
- [on her role in Taxi Driver (1976), when she was age 12] I spent four hours with a shrink trying to prove I was normal enough to play a hooker. Does that make sense?
- Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
- Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
- It's not my personality to be extroverted emotionally, so acting has been helpful to me.
- The Brave One (2007) - $15,000,000
- Flightplan (2005) - $13,000,000
- Panic Room (2002) - $12,000,000
- Anna and the King (1999) - $15,000,000
- Contact (1997) - $9,000,000
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