JODIE FOSTER
Name: Alicia Christian Foster
Born: 19 November 1962 Los Angeles, California, United States
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a two-time
Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. She has also
won two Golden Globes, three BAFTA awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award,
making her one of the few people to have won all four major motion picture
acting awards.
Although Foster's first acting appearance was at three years old, her first
significant role came in 1976 as an underage prostitute in Taxi Driver,
receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She won an Oscar for
Best Actress in 1988 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, she
starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee,
assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international
acclaim and her second Oscar for Best Actress. Her films and roles have spanned
a wide variety of genres, including thrillers, crime, romance, comedy, children's
movies, and science fiction. Popular later films include the box office
successes Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005) and Inside Man (2006).
Name: Alicia Christian Foster
Born: 19 November 1962 Los Angeles, California, United States
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a two-time
Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. She has also
won two Golden Globes, three BAFTA awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award,
making her one of the few people to have won all four major motion picture
acting awards.
Although Foster's first acting appearance was at three years old, her first
significant role came in 1976 as an underage prostitute in Taxi Driver,
receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She won an Oscar for
Best Actress in 1988 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, she
starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee,
assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international
acclaim and her second Oscar for Best Actress. Her films and roles have spanned
a wide variety of genres, including thrillers, crime, romance, comedy, children's
movies, and science fiction. Popular later films include the box office
successes Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005) and Inside Man (2006).