Jodie Foster
Born: 1962-11-19 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- The Beast in Me ... (Executive Producer)
- A Private Life as Lilian Steiner
- Breakdown: 1975 as Narrator (voice)
- Mr. Scorsese as Self
2024
- Alok ... (Executive Producer)
- Disney Legends Awards Ceremony as Self
- Hinckley as Self (archive footage)
2023
- Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- Beau geste as Self
- NYAD as Bonnie Stoll
- Jodie Foster, une histoire française
2022
- Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
2021
- The Mauritanian as Nancy Hollander
- Jodie Foster - Hollywood under the skin as Self (archive footage)
2020
- La semaine des 4 Julie as Self - Guest
- Tales from the Loop ... (Director)
2019
- The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- Mouthpiece ... (Thanks)
- Love, Antosha as Self
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America as Self - Actress and Director
2018
- Hotel Artemis as Jean Thomas / Nurse
- Becoming Iconic as Self
- Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016
- Money Monster ... (Director)
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- True Detective as Liz Danvers
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women as Self – Host
- Scorsese's Women as Mother
2013
- Orange Is the New Black ... (Director)
- House of Cards ... (Director)
- Elysium as Delacourt
- Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array as Narrator (voice)
2012
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011
- Black Mirror ... (Director)
- The Beaver as Meredith Black
- Carnage as Penelope Longstreet
2010
2009
- Motherhood as Jodie Foster
- Early Directors on Directing as Self
2008
- Nim's Island as Alexandra Rover
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- The Brave One as Erica Bain
- AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
- 100 Films and a Funeral as Self
2006
- Inside Man as Madeleine White
- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
2005
- Flightplan as Kyle
- Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster as Self
- The True Story of Hannibal as Self
2004
- A Very Long Engagement as Elodie Gordes
- The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing as Self
- Shooting 'Panic Room' as Self
- A Look Back with Jodie Foster as Self
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- Abby Singer as Jodie Foster (uncredited)
- Celebrities Uncensored as Self
2002
- Panic Room as Meg Altman
- The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys as Sister Assumpta
- Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
2001
2000
- Waking the Dead ... (Executive Producer)
1999
- Anna and the King as Anna
- Rove as Self
- Making 'Taxi Driver' as Self
- The Directors as Self
- The Early Show as Self - Guest
1998
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Self - Host
- The Baby Dance ... (Executive Producer)
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies as Self / Host
- Everest: The Death Zone as Narrator (voice)
- Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World as Narrator (voice)
1997
- Contact as Ellie Arroway
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
1995
- Lo + plus as Self - Guest
- Home for the Holidays ... (Director)
- Jodie Promo as (Archival)
- George Romero's Golden Tales 2 ... (Director)
- Cinefile: Reel Women as Self
1994
- Maverick as Annabelle Bransford
- Nell as Nell Kellty
- Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- All About Bette as Self
1993
- The X-Files as 'Betty' (voice)
- Frasier as Marlene (voice)
- Intimate Portrait as Self
- Sommersby as Laurel Sommersby
- Stephen King's Golden Tales ... (Director)
- It Was a Wonderful Life as Narrator (voice)
1991
- The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling
- Shadows and Fog as Prostitute
- Little Man Tate as Dede Tate
- The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
1990
- Catchfire as Anne Benton
1989
- The Simpsons as Maggie Roark (voice)
- Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife as Narrator (voice)
1988
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- The Accused as Sarah Tobias
- Movies Are My Life as Self
- Stealing Home as Katie Chandler
1987
- Five Corners as Linda Komkowski
- Siesta as Nancy
1985
- Mesmerized as Victoria
1984
- Tales from the Darkside ... (Director)
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- The Blood of Others as Hélène
- The Hotel New Hampshire as Franny Berry
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- O'Hara's Wife as Barbara O'Hara
- Hollywood’s Children as Self (archive footage)
1978
- Mickey's 50 as Self
- Grease Day USA as Self
- The Hands of Time ... (Director)
1977
- Beach House as Teresina
- Stop Calling Me Baby! as Isabelle Tristan, aka 'Fleur bleue'
- Candleshoe as Casey
1976
- Taxi Driver as Iris
- Bugsy Malone as Tallulah
- Freaky Friday as Annabel Andrews
- Echoes of a Summer as Deirdre
- The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane as Rynn Jacobs
- Cérémonie des César
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- Midi Première as Self
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Numéro un as Self
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Audrey
- Smile Jenny, You're Dead as Liberty Cole
- Paper Moon as Addie Pray
1973
- Tom Sawyer as Becky Thatcher
- One Little Indian as Martha
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- The Addams Family as Pugsley Addams (voice)
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Elizabeth Henderson
1972
- ABC Afterschool Special as Sharon Lee
- The New Scooby-Doo Movies as Pugsley Addams (voice)
- Ghost Story as Judy
- Kansas City Bomber as Rita
- Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family as Pugsley Addams (Voice)
- Napoleon and Samantha as Samantha
- The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan as Anne Chan
- The Paul Lynde Show
- Kung Fu as Alethea Patricia Ingram
1970
- The Partridge Family as Julie Lawrence
- Menace on the Mountain as Suellen McIver
1969
- Medical Center
- The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Joey Kelly
1968
- Adam-12 as Mary Bennett
- Julia
- Mayberry R.F.D. as Fairy
1967
1964
- Daniel Boone as Rachel Pickett
1960
- My Three Sons as Priscilla
1959
- Bonanza as Bluebird
1955
- Gunsmoke as Susan Sadler
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1949
- The Emmy Awards as Self - Winner
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee