Alicia Christian Foster, popularly known as Jodie Foster is a Hollywood actress, director, and producer who has won many BAFTAs, Academy Awards and Golden Globes. Initially, she appeared in television commercials, sporadic episodes of television series and television movies. She made her mark in the French cinema and French music circuit because of her fluency in French and living in France for many years.
She received her first breakthrough role with the movie ‘The Accused’ and ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. She is not only an actress of brilliant intensity but also an experimenting director and has directed the number of movies. She has been awarded the Crystal Award by Women in Film for her impeccable contribution to the world of cinema. Jodie Foster is 57, born on November 19, 1962, in Los Angeles, California. She and her three siblings were brought up by her mother singlehandedly after the divorce of her parents.
She joined Yale University to pursue literature and frequently made leisure trips to France. As a child artist, she appeared in the number of Disney movies like ‘One Little Indian (1973)’ and ‘Napoleon and Samantha (1972)’. As a teenager, she acted in movies like: ‘Taxi Driver’, ‘Bugsy Malone’ and Freaky Friday’. She achieved the breakthrough in her career with the release of ‘The Accused’ in 1988.
She featured in numbers of creative ventures like, ‘Shadows and Fog’ (1991)’, American Civil War drama ‘Sommersby (1993)’, comedy film ‘Maverick (1994)’ and ‘Nell (1994)’, which earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1997, she acted for the first time in a science fiction film ‘Contact’ and in the next year an asteroid, ‘17744 Jodiefoster’, was named after her. She is interested in all kinds of divine texts although she is an atheist. She is a lesbian and she always been open about her sexuality.