Jodie Foster

Foster in 2024 Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker. She has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. She was also honored with the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2013 and the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2021.

Foster began her professional career as a child model and later gained recognition as a teen idol through various Disney films, including ''Napoleon and Samantha'' (1972), ''Freaky Friday'' (1976), and ''Candleshoe'' (1977). She appeared in Martin Scorsese's comedy-drama ''Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'' (1974) and thriller ''Taxi Driver'' (1976). For her role as a teenage prostitute in the latter, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. 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 and won two Academy Awards for Best Actress 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 her performance in ''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), ''The Mauritanian'' (2021), and ''Nyad'' (2023). The last of these earned Foster her fifth Oscar nomination. In 2024, she starred in the HBO anthology series ''True Detective: Night Country'', for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe award.

Foster made her directorial 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. Foster has also received Primetime Emmy nominations for producing ''The Baby Dance'' (1998) and for directing the ''Orange Is the New Black'' episode "Lesbian Request Denied" (2013). She has also directed episodes of ''Tales from the Darkside'' (1988), ''House of Cards'' (2014), the ''Black Mirror'' episode "Arkangel" (2017), and ''Tales from the Loop'' (2020). Provided by Wikipedia
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    Carnage by Foster, Jodie

    [United States] : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2012
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    Everest : the death zone

    South Burlington, VT : WGBH Boston Video, 1998
    Other Authors: “…Foster, Jodie…”
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    True Detective: Night Country

    [United States] : Hbo, 2024
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    Other Authors: “…Foster, Jodie…”
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    True detective. Night Country Season 4

    [United States] : Hbo, 2024
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    Other Authors: “…Foster, Jodie…”
    Format: Video DVD


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    Rabbit Ears storybook classics. Vol. 3, The fisherman and his wife. The talking eggs.

    New York : Random House/Listening Library, 2006
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    Other Authors: “…Foster, Jodie…”
    Format: Audio


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    True Detective: Night Country Season 4

    [United States] : Hbo, 2024
    Widescreen ed.
    Other Authors: “…Foster, Jodie…”
    Format: Video


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    Everest : the death zone

    Boston, Mass. : WGBH Boston Video, 1999
    Other Authors: “…Foster, Jodie…”
    Format: Video


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    Rabbit Ears storybook classics. Vol. 3 The fisherman and his wife ; The talking eggs.

    New York : Random House/Listening Library, 2006
    Library ed.
    Other Authors: “…Foster, Jodie…”
    Format: Audio


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    Everest the death zone

    Boston, Mass. : WGBH Boston Video, 1999
    Other Authors: “…Foster, Jodie…”
    Format: Book


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    Everest the death zone

    Boston, Mass. : WGBH Boston Video, 1999
    Other Authors: “…Foster, Jodie…”
    Format: Video DVD


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    Everest the death zone

    Boston, Mass. : WGBH Boston Video, 1999
    Other Authors: “…Foster, Jodie…”
    Format: Video DVD


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    Sommersby

    Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 1993
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    Sommersby

    Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 1993
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    Home for the holidays

    Other Authors: “…Foster, Jodie…”
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    Three Gorges : the biggest dam in the world

    [Place of publication not identified] : Discovery Communicatons, 2007
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    Nell

    Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox, 2003
    Other Authors: “…Foster, Jodie…”
    Format: Video


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    The Silence of the lambs

    New York : Orion Home Video, 1991
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    Home for the holidays

    New York : MGM Home Entertainment, 2002
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    Other Authors: “…Foster, Jodie…”
    Format: DVD


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    The beaver

    Universal City, CA : Summit Entertainment, 2011
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    Format: DVD