Jodie Foster
Acting
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 (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 earning two Academy Awards 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 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), Hotel Artemis (2018), and The Mauritanian (2021).
Foster made her directorial film 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. She earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for producing The Baby Dance (1999), and directing the Orange Is the New Black episode "Lesbian Request Denied" in 2014. She has also directed episodes for Tales from the Darkside, House of Cards, Black Mirror, and Tales from the Loop.
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Filmography of
Jodie Foster
Lilian Steiner
... 2025
Self (archive footage)
... 2024
... 2024
... 2023
Bonnie Stoll
... 2023
Self (archive footage)
... 2021
Nancy Hollander
... 2021
Self
... 2019
Self - Actress and Director
... 2019
Self - Narrator (voice)
... 2018
Self
... 2018
Jean Thomas / Nurse
... 2018
Mother
... 2014
Self – Host
... 2014
Narrator (voice)
... 2013
Delacourt
... 2013
(archive footage)
... 2012
Penelope Longstreet
... 2011
Meredith Black
... 2011
... 2010
Jodie Foster
... 2009
... 2009
Alexandra Rover
... 2008
... 2007
Erica Bain
... 2007
... 2007
... 2006
Madeleine White
... 2006
... 2005
Kyle
... 2005
... 2005
Elodie Gordes
... 2004
... 2004
... 2004
Jodie Foster (uncredited)
... 2003
... 2002
Sister Assumpta
... 2002
Meg Altman
... 2002
... 2001
... 2001
... 2001
Anna
... 1999
Self
... 1999
... 1998
Narrator (voice)
... 1998
Narrator (voice)
... 1998
Ellie Arroway
... 1997
Self
... 1995
(Archival)
... 1995
Nell Kellty
... 1994
Self
... 1994
Annabelle Bransford
... 1994
Self (archive footage)
... 1994
Laurel Sommersby
... 1993
Narrator (voice)
... 1993
Prostitute
... 1991
Dede Tate
... 1991
... 1991
Clarice Starling
... 1991
Anne Benton
... 1990
Narrator (voice)
... 1989
Sarah Tobias
... 1988
Katie Chandler
... 1988
Self
... 1988
Nancy
... 1987
Linda Komkowski
... 1987
Victoria
... 1985
Hélène
... 1984
Franny Berry
... 1984
Zoe Alexander
... 1983
Self (archive footage)
... 1982
Barbara O'Hara
... 1982
Donna
... 1980
Jeanie
... 1980
Self
... 1978
Self
... 1978
Casey
... 1977
Teresina
... 1977
Isabelle Tristan, aka 'Fleur bleue'
... 1977
Rynn Jacobs
... 1976
Annabel Andrews
... 1976
Tallulah
... 1976
Iris
... 1976
Deirdre
... 1976
... 1974
Liberty Cole
... 1974
Martha
... 1973
Becky Thatcher
... 1973
Pugsley Addams (Voice)
... 1972
Rita
... 1972
Samantha
... 1972
Suellen McIver
... 1970