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Known For
Actor
Occupations
Television producer, Actor
Birthday
(Monday)
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality
Citizenship
United States
Political Party
Democratic Party
Languages
English, French
Spouse
Alexandra Hedison (2014)
Parents
Lucius Fisher Foster, Brandy Almond
Siblings
Buddy Foster, Connie Foster
Education
Yale University, The Center for Early Education
Zodiac Sign
♏ Scorpio
Chinese Zodiac
虎 Tiger
Popularity
Tier A -- 400,900 Wikipedia views/month
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Screen debut
First screen credit at age 9
Notable
First credit at age 10 -- started as a child actor
Career
Career spanning 42 years (1972-2014)
Year context
Born in 1962 -- Cuban Missile Crisis brings world to brink of nuclear war; John F. Kennedy was US president
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Cultural Uplift
58
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Filmography (32)
AWARDS (24)
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Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
2025
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Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
2025
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Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
2021
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Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
2021
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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 I
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