Jodie Foster
19 November, 1962
| 1.60 m
Actress
Producer
Director
Biography
Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taksówkarz (1976). This role, for which she received an Academy Award nomination in the "Best Supporting Actress" category, marked a breakthrough in her career. In 1980 she graduated as the best of her class from the College Lycée Français and began to study English Literature at Yale University, from where she graduated magna cum laude in 1985. One tragic moment in her life was March 30th, 1981 when John Warnock Hinkley Jr. attempted to assassinate the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Hinkley was obsessed with Jodie and the movie Taksówkarz (1976), in which Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro, tried to shoot presidential candidate Palantine. Despite the fact that Jodie never took acting lessons, she received two Oscars before she was thirty years of age. She received her first award for her part as Sarah Tobias in Oskarżeni (1988) and the second one for her performance as Clarice Starling in Milczenie owiec (1991).
Movies
A thirteen-year-old girl, who lives with her absentee father, befriends a disabled teenage amateur magician and invites him, gradually, into her tenuous struggle against a predatory local neighbor.
A single mother raises a child prodigy on her own, struggling to give him every opportunity he needs to express his gift.
A mother and daughter find their personalities switched and have to live each other's lives on one strange Friday.
A New Englander and his odd family run a hotel in Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.
A group of four teenage girls come of age in the asphalt desert of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley arranged with a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.
Ex-baseball player Billy comes home to receive his childhood darling's ashes.
