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Jodie Foster
Actor, Director, ProducerBorn November 19, 1962 (63 years)
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.
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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Jodie Foster Filmography
| 2025 | Breakdown: 1975 · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2025 | A Private Life · as Lilian Steiner |
| 2023 | Nyad · as Bonnie Stoll |
| 2021 | The Mauritanian · as Nancy Hollander |
| 2020 | Disclosure · as Clarice Starling |
| 2018 | Hotel Artemis · as Jean Thomas / Nurse |
| 2014 | MasterClass (TV Series) |
| 2014 | True Detective (TV Series) · as Liz Danvers |
| 2013 | Elysium · as Delacourt |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen · as (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | Carnage · as Penelope Longstreet |
| 2011 | The Beaver · as Meredith Black |
| 2008 | Nim's Island · as Alexandra Rover |
| 2007 | 20 Acts of Love Gone Wrong · as Cast |
| 2007 | The Brave One · as Erica Bain |
| 2006 | Inside Man · as Madeleine White |
| 2006 | Cabin Pressure: Designing the Aalto E-474 · as Kyle Pratt |
| 2005 | Flightplan · as Kyle |
| 2004 | A Very Long Engagement · as Elodie Gordes |
| 2003 | Abby Singer · as Jodie Foster (uncredited) |
| 2002 | The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys · as Sister Assumpta |
| 2002 | Panic Room · as Meg Altman |
| 1999 | Anna and the King · as Anna |
| 1998 | |
| 1998 | Everest: The Death Zone · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1998 | Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1997 | Contact · as Ellie Arroway |
| 1994 | Nell · as Nell Kellty |
| 1994 | Maverick · as Annabelle Bransford |
| 1993 | Frasier (TV Series) · as Marlene (voice) |
| 1993 | The X-Files (TV Series) · as 'betty' (voice) |
| 1993 | Sommersby · as Laurel Sommersby |
| 1992 | It Was a Wonderful Life · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1992 | HBO First Look (TV Series) |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) |
| 1991 | Shadows and Fog · as Prostitute |
| 1991 | Little Man Tate · as Dede Tate |
| 1991 | Fear in the Dark · as Clarice |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs · as Clarice Starling |
| 1990 | |
| 1989 | The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Maggie Roark (voice) |
| 1988 | The Accused · as Sarah Tobias |
| 1988 | Stealing Home · as Katie Chandler |
| 1987 | Siesta · as Nancy |
| 1987 | Five Corners · as Linda Komkowski |
| 1985 | Mesmerized · as Victoria |
| 1984 | The Blood of Others · as Hélène |
| 1984 | The Hotel New Hampshire · as Franny Berry |
| 1983 | Svengali · as Zoe Alexander |
| 1982 | O'Hara's Wife · as Barbara O'hara |
| 1980 | Carny · as Donna |
| 1980 | Foxes · as Jeanie |
| 1977 | Candleshoe · as Casey |
| 1977 | Beach House · as Teresina |
| 1977 | Stop Calling Me Baby! · as Isabelle Tristan, Aka 'fleur Bleue' |
| 1976 | The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane · as Rynn Jacobs |
| 1976 | Freaky Friday · as Annabel Andrews |
| 1976 | Bugsy Malone · as Tallulah |
| 1976 | César Awards (TV Series) |
| 1976 | Taxi Driver · as Iris |
| 1976 | Echoes of a Summer · as Deirdre |
| 1974 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore · as Audrey |
| 1974 | Paper Moon (TV Series) · as Addie Pray |
| 1974 | Smile Jenny, You're Dead · as Liberty Cole |
| 1973 | Love Story (TV Series) · as Ellie Madison |
| 1973 | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (TV Series) · as Elizabeth Henderson |
| 1973 | The New Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Hildy Haynes |
| 1973 | The Addams Family (1973) (TV Series) · as Pugsley Addams (voice) |
| 1973 | One Little Indian · as Martha |
| 1973 | Tom Sawyer · as Becky Thatcher |
| 1972 | The ABC Afterschool Special (TV Series) · as Sue |
| 1972 | The Paul Lynde Show (TV Series) |
| 1972 | The New Scooby-Doo Movies (TV Series) · as Pugsley Addams (voice) |
| 1972 | The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (TV Series) · as Anne Chan |
| 1972 | Kansas City Bomber · as Rita |
| 1972 | Napoleon and Samantha · as Samantha |
| 1972 | Ghost Story (TV Series) · as Judy |
| 1972 | Kung Fu (TV Series) · as Alethea Patricia Ingram |
| 1970 | San Francisco International Airport (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1970 | The Partridge Family (TV Series) · as Julie Lawrence |
| 1970 | Menace on the Mountain · as Suellen Mciver |
| 1970 | Nanny and the Professor (TV Series) · as Angela |
| 1969 | The Courtship of Eddie's Father (TV Series) · as Joey Kelly |
| 1969 | Medical Center (TV Series) |
| 1968 | The Doris Day Show (TV Series) · as Jenny Benson |
| 1968 | Mayberry R.F.D. (TV Series) · as Fairy |
| 1968 | Adam-12 (TV Series) · as Mary Bennett |
| 1968 | Julia (TV Series) |
| 1967 | Ironside (TV Series) |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone (TV Series) · as Rachel Pickett |
| 1960 | My Three Sons (TV Series) · as Priscilla |
| 1959 | |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Patricia |
| 1954 | Disneyland (TV Series) · as Suellen Mciver |
| 2020 | Tales from the Loop (TV Series) |
| 2016 | |
| 2013 | Orange Is the New Black (TV Series) |
| 2013 | House of Cards (US) (TV Series) |
| 2011 | Black Mirror (TV Series) |
| 2011 | |
| 1995 | |
| 1991 | |
| 1985 | |
| 1983 | Tales from the Darkside (TV Series) |
| 2025 | The Beast in Me (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | True Detective (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | The Brave One · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | |
| 2000 | Waking the Dead · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | The Baby Dance · as Executive Producer |
| 1995 | |
| 1994 | |
| 1985 | Mesmerized · as Co-Producer |
| 2025 | Mr. Scorsese (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2025 | The 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - Presenter & Nominee |
| 2025 | 82nd Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2024 | Henry Fonda for President · as Self |
| 2024 | The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2024 | Disney Legends Awards Ceremony · as Self |
| 2024 | Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2024 | The Oscars · as Self - Nominee |
| 2024 | The 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2024 | The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 2024 | The 29th Annual Critics' Choice Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2024 | 81st Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Nominee & Presenter |
| 2023 | Amanpour (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2023 | Beau Geste (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2022 | Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power · as Self |
| 2021 | Daniel Day Lewis - The Heir · as Self |
| 2021 | Moments Within Moments · as Self |
| 2021 | Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony · as Self |
| 2021 | 2021 Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2020 | Tom Cruise: An Eternal Youth · as Self |
| 2020 | La semaine des 4 julie (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2019 | The Kelly Clarkson Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | Love, Antosha · as Self |
| 2019 | The 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 2018 | Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché · as Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | Becoming Iconic · as Self |
| 2018 | The Oscars · as Self - Presenter |
| 2017 | The IMDb Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2017 | The Fabulous Allan Carr · as Self |
| 2017 | Hollywood First Look Features (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2016 | Quotidien (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2015 | IMDb on the Scene - Interviews (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | Red Nose Day · as Self |
| 2015 | The Late Late Show with James Corden (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2014 | Variety: Actors on Actors (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes to... · as Self |
| 2014 | Steve Schapiro et les icônes américaines · as Self |
| 2013 | 70th Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Honoree |
| 2012 | Comic Con 2012 Live · as Self |
| 2012 | 2012 MTV Movie Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 2012 | The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2011 | The Jonathan Ross Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2011 | Dish Nation (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | Big Morning Buzz Live (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2011 | Close Up (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2010 | Conan (2010) (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2010 | Inside Story: The Silence of the Lambs · as Self |
| 2010 | The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Clip Presenter |
| 2009 | C à Vous (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | Motherhood · as Jodie Foster |
| 2008 | The Doctors (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2008 | Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo · as Self |
| 2007 | 100 Films and a Funeral · as Self |
| 2007 | Manufacturing Dissent · as Self |
| 2007 | Girl 27 · as Self |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | Larry King Live: The Greatest Interviews · as Self |
| 2007 | The 79th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 2007 | La noche de los Oscar · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | Rachael Ray (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2006 | Forbes Celebrity 100: Who Made Bank? · as Self |
| 2006 | I Love The 70s Volume 2 (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | The Ultimate Heist: Making 'Inside Man' · as Self |
| 2005 | The 100 Greatest Family Films · as Self |
| 2005 | Made In Hollywood (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | The WIN Awards · as Self |
| 2005 | The 20th IFP Independent Spirit Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 2005 | |
| 2005 | Buenafuente (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2005 | The True Story of Hannibal · as Self |
| 2004 | George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | Le grand journal de Canal+ (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2004 | Shooting 'Panic Room' · as Self |
| 2004 | 101 Biggest Celebrity Oops · as Self - #93 Celebrity Rejections: Silence Of The Lambs |
| 2004 | In the Company of Women · as Self |
| 2003 | Che tempo che fa (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | La méthode Cauet (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | Celebrities Uncensored (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains · as Self |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | The 74th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 2001 | |
| 2001 | |
| 2001 | Anatomy of a Scene (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2000 | The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self |
| 1999 | Saturday Night Live 25 · as Self - Audience Member |
| 1999 | Rove Live (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1999 | The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 1999 | Making 'Taxi Driver' · as Self |
| 1999 | After They Were Famous (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1999 | The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1998 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 1998 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies · as Self / Host |
| 1998 | The 55th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 1998 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: The Antiheroes · as Self - Host |
| 1997 | The Directors (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's · as Self |
| 1997 | The View (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1997 | Leute heute (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1997 | The 69th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1996 | Access Hollywood (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1996 | Whoever That Fails (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | VIP World (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | 2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1995 | 1995 MTV Movie Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1995 | The Century of Cinema (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1995 | The 67th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 1995 | 1st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1995 | The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 1994 | Extra (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | All About Bette · as Self |
| 1994 | Movie Magic (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1994 | Sidewalks Entertainment (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1993 | |
| 1993 | Those Who ... Football (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1993 | The 65th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1992 | Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1992 | The Big Breakfast (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | Getaway (TV Series) · as Self - Celebrity Traveller |
| 1992 | The 64th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1992 | Oscar's Greatest Moments · as Self |
| 1991 | Movie Days (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1991 | Maury (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1991 | The Making of 'the Silence of the Lambs' · as Self |
| 1991 | The 63rd Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1990 | Intimate Portrait (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1990 | Australia's Funniest Home Video Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest Presenter |
| 1990 | The 62nd Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1989 | The 61st Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1987 | Biography (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1986 | The Oprah Winfrey Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | Larry King Live (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1984 | Jeopardy! (TV Series) · as Self - Contestant |
| 1982 | Wogan (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1982 | Hollywood's Children · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1982 | Champs-Elysees (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1981 | Journal de 20h de France 2 (TV Series) · as Self (duplex) |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | SAG Foundation Conversations (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | CBS Sunday Morning With Jane Pauley (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1978 | Movies Are My Life · as Self |
| 1978 | Grease Day USA · as Self |
| 1978 | The 50th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1978 | heute journal (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1977 | The Hollywood Greats (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1977 | The 49th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 1977 | The 34th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 1975 | Number One (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Sunday meetings (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1975 | Midi-Première (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1974 | Dinah! (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1974 | The 46th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Performer |
| 1974 | NOVA (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator |
| 1973 | AFI Life Achievement Award (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1971 | Film (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1971 | Great Performances (TV Series) · as Self - Winner |
| 1969 | Sesame Street (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1954 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1954 | The Early Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1953 | The Academy Awards (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1949 | The Emmy Awards (TV Series) · as Self - Winner |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards (TV Series) · as Self - Nominee |