Jodie Foster

Biography of Jodie Foster

Alicia Christian Foster (Jodie Foster) was born on November 19, 1962 in Los Angeles, California. She is an American actress, film director, film producer and two-time Academy Award winner.

Jodie Foster was born a few months after her parents separated as their fourth child. At the beginning of 1963, her German-born mother Brandy moved the children to the San Fernando Valley in northwest Los Angeles to live with her partner, who did most of the supporting the family.

Foster first appeared in television series such as Bonanza, Kung Fu, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Love Story, The Addams Family and Paper Moon.

She played her first film role at the age of ten in the Disney film Napoleon and Samantha, in 1972. 13-year-old actress became world famous as an underage prostitute in Taxi Driver (1976). In addition to an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Foster received two British Academy Film Awards for her performance.

That same year she starred in the comedies Bugsy Malone and Crazy Friday. Foster won two British Academy Film Awards again for Bugsy Malone and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy for Crazy Friday.The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane(also 1976) she played an independent, highly talented teenager, a role that corresponds to her image to this day and for which she received the Saturn Award.

In addition to acting, Foster graduated at the top of her class at the French-language private school Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles. From 1980 to 1985, Foster studied literature at Yale University.

In 1984 Foster took on the role of a raped woman in The Accused, for which she received her first Oscar.

In 1991, she made her directorial debut with Little Man Tate.That same year, she played an FBI agent in The Silence of the Lambs, replacing Michelle Pfeiffer. Their acting collaborations with Anthony Hopkins earned both actors an Oscar.

She took on occasional speaking roles, such as in 1996 and 1997 in the series Frasier and the X-Files in one episode each as a caller and as the voice in a hallucination sequence. In an episode of The Simpsons, she can be heard in the US original as the voice of Maggie Simpson.

In July 2008, she was ranked sixth in a Forbes ranking with earnings of $23 million (between June 2007 and June 2008) behind Cameron Diaz, Keira Knightley, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow.

In 2011, while filming Roman Polański's film version of Yasmina Reza's play Carnage, Foster chaired the 2011 Cesar Awards in France. In 2013, she received the Cecil B. deMille Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Golden Globe Awards.

Foster has two sons (born July 20, 1998 and born September 29, 2001). In December 2007, Foster first publicly acknowledged her longtime partner Cydney Bernard; in May 2008 she announced the separation. She has been dating fellow actress Alexandra Hedison since 2013; the couple got married in April 2014.