Jodie Foster Biography

Alicia Christian Foster was born in Los Angeles.Jodie Foster parents divorced three years before she was born, and she was conceived when her mother, Brandy, was visiting her father, Lucius, for child support. Alicia's siblings nicknamed her "Jodie," a name she has used in her profession. When she was just three years old, Jodie Foster began acting in commercials to support the family, most notably for Coppertone sunblock. When she was five, Jodie Foster  landed her first acting role on the TV show "Mayberry R.F.D." (1968). Jodie Foster  stayed very busy as a child actress, working on television programs such as "The Doris Day Show" (1968), "Adam-12" (1968), "Gunsmoke" (1955), and Disney movies like One Little Indian (1973), then with the film Taxi Driver (1976) in which she played a prostitute at the tender age of twelve. This performance earned her an Oscar nomination, and she went on to have a very successful career in her early teens with roles in more Disney films, most notably the classics Freaky Friday (1976) and Candleshoe (1977). The last film Jodie Foster  made during this era was the coming-of-age drama Foxes (1980), before enrolling at Yale University when she was 17. Tragedy struck Jodie Foster during her Freshman year when a crazed and obsessed fan name John Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan to impress her.

Jodie Foster  graduated Yale in 1985 with a degree in literature. Jodie Foster main priority was now to become a successful adult actress. After a few forgettable films, Jodie Foster  auditioned for The Accused (1988) and was cast Sarah Tobias, a party girl who is gang-raped in a bar. For this role she won her first Academy Award and Golden Globe as Best Actress. Even though she had won an Oscar, Jodie Foster had not yet established herself as a star and fought hard for her next movie role. Jodie Foster starred as FBI trainee Clarice Starling, a young woman who is assigned to hunt down a serial killer in the horror film The Silence of the Lambs (1991). The film was a blockbuster hit, winning Jodie Foster  her second Academy Award for Best Actress and establishing her as an international star at the age of 28. With the wealth and fame to do anything she wanted, Jodie Foster  turned to directing. Jodie Foster  made her directorial debut with Little Man Tate (1991) followed by Home for the Holidays (1995). These movies were critically acclaimed but did not do well at the box office, and Jodie Foster  proved to be a far more successful actress than she was a director. 1994 proved to be a huge triumph for Jodie Foster 's acting career. Jodie Foster played a sexy con artist in the hugely successful western spoof Maverick (1994) with Mel Gibson. Jodie Foster also played title role in Nell (1994) alongside Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson. For her compelling performance as a wild woman from the woods who speaks an invented language and must return to civilization, Jodie Foster  was nominated for her fourth Academy Award and won a Screen Actors Guild Award.