Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker. She began her career at age three as a child model in 1965 and started acting in television series two years later, debuting in the sitcom Mayberry R.F.D. Her breakthrough role was as a teenage prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), which earned her an Academy Award nomination. As a teenager, she also starred in Bugsy Malone (1976), The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), Freaky Friday (1976), Candleshoe (1977), and Foxes (1980).
After attending Yale, Foster received critical acclaim for her role in The Accused (1988), winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe. She won a second Academy Award for The Silence of the Lambs (1991). She made her directorial debut with Little Man Tate (1991) and founded the production company Egg Pictures in 1992. Her other notable films include Nell (1994), Sommersby, Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), and Anna and the King (1999). In the 2000s, she starred in thrillers such as Panic Room (2002) and Inside Man (2006), and directed films including The Beaver (2011) and Money Monster (2016). Foster has won three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
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