Jodie Foster

**Alicia Christian Foster** (born November 19, 1962), kent professionally as **Jodie Foster**, is an American actress, film director, an producer. Foster begoud her perfaisional career as a bairn model whan she wis three year auld in 1965, an twa years later she muived tae actin in telly series, whan she debuted the sitcom *[[Mayberry R.F.D.]]*. In the late 1960s an early 1970s, she wirked in several primetime telly series an starned in childer's films. Foster's breakthrou cam in Martin Scorsese's *[[Taxi Driver]]* (1976), in that she played a teenage prostitute; the role garnered her a nomination for an Academy Awaird. Her ither creetically acclaimed roles as a teenager war in the muisical *[[Bugsy Malone]]* (1976) an the thriller *[[The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane]]* (1976), an she becam a popular teen idol bi starnin in Disney's *[[Freaky Friday (1976 film)|Freaky Friday]]* (1976), *[[Candleshoe]]* (1977), an *[[Foxes (film)|Foxes]]* (1980).

Efter attendin college at Yale, Foster struggled in her transeetion tae adult roles till she wan widespread creetical acclaim for her portrayal o a rape survivor in *[[The Accused (1988 film)|The Accused]]* (1988), for that she wan several awairds, includin an Academy Awaird an a Gowden Globe. She wan her seicont Academy Awaird three years later for her role in the sleeper hit *[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|The Silence of the Lambs]]*, whaur she played Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee investigatin a serial murther case. Foster made her debut as a film director the same year wi the moderately successfu *[[Little Man Tate]]* (1991), an foondit her awn production company, Egg Pictures, in 1992. The company's first production wis *[[Nell (film)|Nell]]* (1994), in that she an aa played the teetle role, gainin anither nomination for an Academy Awaird. Her ither films in the 1990s includit period drama *[[Sommersby]]*, Western comedy *[[Maverick (film)|Maverick]]* (1994), science feection film *[[Contact (1997 American film)|Contact]]* (1997), an period drama *[[Anna and the King]]* (1999). Her seicont film direction, *[[Home for the Holidays (1995 film)|Home for the Holidays]]* (1995), wis nae well-received commercially, while creetical reviews war mixed.

Foster experienced career setbacks in the early 2000s that includit the cancellation o a film project an the closin doun o her production company. She then starned in fower thrillers, *[[Panic Room]]* (2002), *[[Flightplan]]* (2005), *[[Inside Man]]* (2006) an *[[The Brave One (2007 film)|The Brave One]]* (2007), that war commercially successfu an generally weel-received bi creetics an audiences. She haes focused on directin in the 2010s, directin the films *[[The Beaver (film)|The Beaver]]* (2011) an *[[Money Monster]]* (2016), as weel as episodes for Netflix telly series *[[Orange is the New Black]]*, *[[House of Cards (U.S. TV series)|House of Cards]]*, an *[[Black Mirror]]*. She an aa starned in the films *[[Carnage (2011 film)|Carnage]]* (2011) an *[[Elysium (film)|Elysium]]* (2013).

Foster haes eften been citit as ane o the best actresses o her generation. In addeetion tae her twa Academy Awairds, Foster haes wan three BAFTA Awairds, three Gowden Globe Awairds, a Screen Actors Guild Awaird an the Cecil B DeMille Awaird. For her wark as a director, Foster haes been nominatit for twa Directors Guild o Americae Awairds an a Primetime Emmy Awaird.

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