Jodie Foster
Acting
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.
Breakdown: 1975
Narrator (voice)
A Private Life
Lilian Steiner
Henry Fonda for President
Self (archive footage)
Hinckley
Self (archive footage)
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
Self
Jodie Foster, une histoire française
NYAD
Bonnie Stoll
Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin
Self (archive footage)
The Mauritanian
Nancy Hollander
Love, Antosha
Self
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Self - Actress and Director
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Self - Narrator (voice)
Becoming Iconic
Self
Hotel Artemis
Jean Thomas / Nurse
Scorsese's Women
Mother
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Self – Host
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
Narrator (voice)
Elysium
Delacourt
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
Carnage
Penelope Longstreet
The Beaver
Meredith Black
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
Self
Motherhood
Jodie Foster
Early Directors on Directing
Self
Nim's Island
Alexandra Rover
100 Films and a Funeral
Self
The Brave One
Erica Bain
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self
Inside Man
Madeleine White
Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence
Self
Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs
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Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning
Self
Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster
Self
Flightplan
Kyle
The True Story of Hannibal
Self
A Very Long Engagement
Elodie Gordes
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Self
A Look Back with Jodie Foster
Self
Shooting 'Panic Room'
Self
Abby Singer
Jodie Foster (uncredited)
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Sister Assumpta
Panic Room
Meg Altman
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
Anna and the King
Anna
Making 'Taxi Driver'
Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Self / Host
Everest: The Death Zone
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Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World
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Contact
Ellie Arroway
Cinefile: Reel Women
Self
Jodie Promo
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Nell
Nell Kellty
The Making of '...And God Spoke'
Self (archive footage)
All About Bette
Self
Maverick
Annabelle Bransford
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Self (archive footage)
Sommersby
Laurel Sommersby
It Was a Wonderful Life
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Shadows and Fog
Prostitute
Little Man Tate
Dede Tate
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
The Silence of the Lambs
Clarice Starling
Catchfire
Anne Benton
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
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The Accused
Sarah Tobias
Stealing Home
Katie Chandler
Movies Are My Life
Self
Siesta
Nancy
Five Corners
Linda Komkowski
Mesmerized
Victoria
The Blood of Others
Hélène
The Hotel New Hampshire
Franny Berry
Svengali
Zoe Alexander
Hollywood’s Children
Self (archive footage)
O'Hara's Wife
Barbara O'Hara
Carny
Donna
Foxes
Jeanie
Mickey's 50
Self
Grease Day USA
Self
Candleshoe
Casey
Beach House
Teresina
Stop Calling Me Baby!
Isabelle Tristan, aka 'Fleur bleue'
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Rynn Jacobs
Freaky Friday
Annabel Andrews
Bugsy Malone
Tallulah
Taxi Driver
Iris
Echoes of a Summer
Deirdre
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Audrey
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
Liberty Cole
One Little Indian
Martha
Tom Sawyer
Becky Thatcher
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
Pugsley Addams (Voice)
Kansas City Bomber
Rita
Napoleon and Samantha
Samantha
Menace on the Mountain
Suellen McIver