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 (1...
Elysium
2013
A Private Life
2025
Taxi Driver
1976
Panic Room
2002
Carnage
2011
Foxes
1980
The Accused
1988
Contact
1997
Stealing Home
1988
The Mauritanian
2021
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-BlachΓ©
2018
Inside Man
2006
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Hinckley
2024
Flightplan
2005
Siesta
1987
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
NYAD
2023
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
2002
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
Nim's Island
2008
Henry Fonda for President
2025
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
1976
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
1972
A Very Long Engagement
2004
Sommersby
1993
Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs
2001
Catchfire
1990
Maverick
1994
The Brave One
2007
Menace on the Mountain
1970
Beach House
1977
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
Breakdown: 1975
2025
Nell
1994