For the asteroid, see 17744 Jodiefoster.
Alicia Christian Foster, better known as
Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962), is an American actor, film director and producer.
Foster began acting in commercials at 3 years old,
["Jodie Foster". Yahoo movies.] and her first significant role came in the 1976 film
Taxi Driver as the
preteen prostitute, Iris, for which she received a nomination for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won an
Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989 for playing a
rape survivor in
The Accused. In 1991, she starred in
The Silence of the Lambs as
Clarice Starling, a gifted
FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her fourth Academy Award nomination for playing a backwoods hermit in
Nell (1994). Other popular films include
Maverick (1994),
Contact (1997),
Panic Room (2002),
Flightplan (2005),
Inside Man (2006),
The Brave One (2007) and
Nim's Island (2008).
