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). She 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. Foster's sexual orientation became the subject of public discussion in 1991 when publications such as OutWeek and The Village Voice, protesting against the alleged homophobia and transphobia in The Silence of the Lambs, claimed she was a lesbian. She publicly acknowledged her 14-year relationship with Cydney Bernard in 2007 in a speech at The Hollywood Reporter's "Women in Entertainment" breakfast honoring her. In 2013, she addressed her decision to come out in a speech after receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 70th Golden Globe Awards, which led many news outlets to describe her as gay. Some sources noted that she did not use the words "gay" or "lesbian" in her speech.
99 movies · 67 shows
Breakdown: 1975
2025·6.8
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025·0.0
A Private Life
2025·5.6
Henry Fonda for President
2025·7.0
Hinckley
2024·5.0
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
2024·6.0
Jodie Foster, une histoire française
2023·0.0
NYAD
2023·7.1
Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin
2021·7.5
The Mauritanian
2021·7.4
Love, Antosha
2019·7.4
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019·0.0
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018·7.3
Becoming Iconic
2018·5.3
Hotel Artemis
2018·6.1
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017·4.5
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A
2016·0.0
Scorsese's Women
2014·0.0
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014·6.5
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
2013·0.0
Elysium
2013·6.5
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012·7.6
Carnage
2011·7.2
The Beaver
2011·6.4
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
2010·7.3
Motherhood
2009·5.0
Early Directors on Directing
2009·0.0
Nim's Island
2008·5.9
100 Films and a Funeral
2007·7.3
The Brave One
2007·6.6
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007·6.7
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006·6.5
Inside Man
2006·7.4
Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster
2005·6.5
The Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning
2005·0.0
The Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs
2005·0.0
The Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence
2005·1.0
Flightplan
2005·6.4
The True Story of Hannibal
2005·7.0
A Very Long Engagement
2004·7.3
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004·7.0
A Look Back with Jodie Foster
2004·0.0
Shooting 'Panic Room'
2004·7.0
Abby Singer
2003·6.8
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002·6.5
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
2002·6.7
Panic Room
2002·6.8
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2001·7.3
Anna and the King
1999·6.8
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999·7.0
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
1998·8.0
Everest: The Death Zone
1998·6.9
Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World
1998·10.0
Contact
1997·7.4
Cinefile: Reel Women
1995·0.0
Jodie Promo
1995·0.0
Nell
1994·6.5
All About Bette
1994·7.5
Maverick
1994·6.9
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994·7.0
Sommersby
1993·6.4
It Was a Wonderful Life
1992·8.0
Shadows and Fog
1991·6.7
Little Man Tate
1991·6.6
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
1991·6.0
The Silence of the Lambs
1991·8.3
Catchfire
1990·5.3
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
1989·0.0
The Accused
1988·7.1
Stealing Home
1988·6.3
Movies Are My Life
1988·6.8
Siesta
1987·5.3
Five Corners
1987·5.9
Mesmerized
1985·4.8
The Blood of Others
1984·5.3
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984·5.7
Svengali
1983·5.0
Hollywood’s Children
1982·9.0
O'Hara's Wife
1982·5.7
Carny
1980·6.2
Foxes
1980·6.0
Mickey's 50
1978·9.0
Grease Day USA
1978·8.3
Candleshoe
1977·6.9
Beach House
1977·6.3
Stop Calling Me Baby!
1977·4.7
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
1976·7.0
Freaky Friday
1976·6.1
Bugsy Malone
1976·6.6
Taxi Driver
1976·8.1
Echoes of a Summer
1976·5.4
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974·7.0
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
1974·6.8
One Little Indian
1973·6.3
Tom Sawyer
1973·6.4
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
1972·7.4
Kansas City Bomber
1972·5.8
Napoleon and Samantha
1972·6.3
Menace on the Mountain
1970·5.3