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Jodie Foster

19 Nov, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA

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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Jody FosterAlicia Christian FosterJodi Foster조디 포스터ジョディ・フォスターΤζόντι Φόστερ朱迪·福斯特乔迪·福斯特

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Taxi Driver
81% (1976)
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Nell
66% (1994)
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The Accused
70% (1988)
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Foxes
59% (1980)
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Carny
65% (1980)
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Candleshoe
69% (1977)
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The Beaver
64% (2011)
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Carnage
72% (2011)
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NYAD
71% (2023)
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Mesmerized
50% (1985)
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Beach House
66% (1977)
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Girl 27
64% (2007)
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Motherhood
50% (2009)
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Frasier
77% (1993)
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The Early Show
57% (1999)
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Rove
80% (1999)
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Julia
60% (1968)
Harty
60% (1983)
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The Oscars
70% (1953)
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Paper Moon
63% (1974)
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Adam-12
71% (1968)
Numéro un
60% (1975)
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Lo + plus
0% (1995)

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