9.0
9.0
Hinckley
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Jodie Foster
Also known as: Alicia Christian Foster
Acting
Born:November 19, 1962(age 63)
Birthplace:Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:Yale University, Yale College, Lycée Français de Los Angeles, The Center for Early Education, Grace Hopper College, Yale University
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CommunityBiography
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 (100 movies)
8.3
8.3
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
as Clarice Starling
8.1
8.1
Taxi Driver
1976
as Iris
8.0
8.0
Grease Day USA
1978
as Self
8.0
8.0
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
1972
as Pugsley Addams (Voice)
7.6
7.6
All About Bette
1994
as Self
7.5
7.5
Jodie Foster, Hollywood Under the Skin
2021
as Self (archive footage)
7.4
7.4
Contact
1997
as Ellie Arroway
7.4
7.4
The Mauritanian
2021
as Nancy Hollander
7.4
7.4
Love, Antosha
2019
as Self
7.4
7.4
Inside Man
2006
as Madeleine White
7.3
7.3
A Very Long Engagement
2004
as Elodie Gordes
7.3
7.3
100 Films and a Funeral
2007
as Self
7.3
7.3
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2001
as Self
7.2
7.2
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
Executive Producer
7.2
7.2
Carnage
2011
as Penelope Longstreet
7.1
7.1
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
2010
as Self
7.1
7.1
The Accused
1988
as Sarah Tobias
7.1
7.1
NYAD
2023
as Bonnie Stoll
7.0
7.0
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
1976
as Rynn Jacobs
7.0
7.0
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
as Self
6.9
6.9
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999
as Self
6.9
6.9
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974
as Audrey
6.9
6.9
Maverick
1994
as Annabelle Bransford
6.9
6.9
Candleshoe
1977
as Casey
6.8
6.8
Shooting 'Panic Room'
2004
as Self
6.8
6.8
Panic Room
2002
as Meg Altman
6.8
6.8
Anna and the King
1999
as Anna
6.7
6.7
Shadows and Fog
1991
as Prostitute
6.7
6.7
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
as Self
6.7
6.7
The True Story of Hannibal
2005
as Self
6.6
6.6
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
2002
Producer
6.6
6.6
Little Man Tate
1991
Director
6.6
6.6
The Brave One
2007
Executive Producer
6.6
6.6
Bugsy Malone
1976
as Tallulah
6.6
6.6
Nell
1994
Producer
6.5
6.5
Elysium
2013
as Delacourt
6.5
6.5
Flightplan
2005
as Kyle
6.5
6.5
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
as Self
6.5
6.5
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
as Self
6.5
6.5
Everest: The Death Zone
1998
as Narrator (voice)
6.5
6.5
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
as Self – Host
6.4
6.4
Money Monster
2016
Director
6.4
6.4
Tom Sawyer
1973
as Becky Thatcher
6.4
6.4
The Beaver
2011
Director
6.4
6.4
Beach House
1977
as Teresina
6.3
6.3
Sommersby
1993
as Laurel Sommersby
6.3
6.3
One Little Indian
1973
as Martha
6.3
6.3
Stealing Home
1988
as Katie Chandler
6.2
6.2
Napoleon and Samantha
1972
as Samantha
6.2
6.2
Home for the Holidays
1995
Director
6.2
6.2
Carny
1980
as Donna
6.1
6.1
Waking the Dead
2000
Executive Producer
6.1
6.1
Hotel Artemis
2018
as Jean Thomas / Nurse
6.1
6.1
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
1974
as Liberty Cole
6.1
6.1
The Baby Dance
1998
Executive Producer
6.1
6.1
Freaky Friday
1976
as Annabel Andrews
6.0
6.0
Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster
2005
as Self
6.0
6.0
Movies Are My Life
1988
as Self
6.0
6.0
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
2024
as Self
5.9
5.9
Nim's Island
2008
as Alexandra Rover
5.9
5.9
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
1991
as Self
5.9
5.9
Kansas City Bomber
1972
as Rita
5.9
5.9
Foxes
1980
as Jeanie
5.8
5.8
Five Corners
1987
as Linda Komkowski
5.7
5.7
A Private Life
2025
as Lilian Steiner
5.6
5.6
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
as Franny Berry
5.3
5.3
Catchfire
1990
as Anne Benton
5.2
5.2
Becoming Iconic
2018
as Self
5.1
5.1
Siesta
1987
as Nancy
5.1
5.1
Echoes of a Summer
1976
as Deirdre
5.0
5.0
Motherhood
2009
as Jodie Foster
5.0
5.0
The Blood of Others
1984
as Hélène
4.8
4.8
Svengali
1983
as Zoe Alexander
4.7
4.7
Mesmerized
1985
as Victoria
4.2
4.2
Stephen King's Golden Tales
1993
Director
4.0
4.0
Menace on the Mountain
1970
as Suellen McIver
3.8
3.8
Stop Calling Me Baby!
1977
as Isabelle Tristan, aka 'Fleur bleue'
3.5
3.5
O'Hara's Wife
1982
as Barbara O'Hara
Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning
2001
as Self
Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs
2001
as Self
Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence
2001
as Self
A Look Back with Jodie Foster
2004
as Self
It Was a Wonderful Life
1993
as Narrator (voice)
Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World
1998
as Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
1989
as Narrator (voice)
Mickey's 50
1978
as Self
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
as Self - Actress and Director
Hollywood’s Children
1982
as Self (archive footage)
Cinefile: Reel Women
1995
as Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
1998
as Self / Host
Early Directors on Directing
2009
as Self
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Jodie Foster, une histoire française
2023
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
TBA
as Self
Jodie Promo
1995
as (Archival)
Scorsese's Women
2014
as Mother
George Romero's Golden Tales 2
1995
Director
The Hands of Time
1978
Writer
Alok
2024
Executive Producer
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