Jodie Foster
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). She 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's sexual orientation became the subject of public discussion in 1991 when publications such as OutWeek and The Village Voice, protesting against the alleged homophobia and transphobia in The Silence of the Lambs, claimed she was a lesbian. She publicly acknowledged her 14-year relationship with Cydney Bernard in 2007 in a speech at The Hollywood Reporter's "Women in Entertainment" breakfast honoring her. In 2013, she addressed her decision to come out in a speech after receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 70th Golden Globe Awards, which led many news outlets to describe her as gay. Some sources noted that she did not use the words "gay" or "lesbian" in her speech.
167 acting credits · 12 directing credits
Acting · 167
The Simpsons
1989
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The X-Files
1993
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
Frasier
1993
Bonanza
1959
Golden Globe Awards
1944
True Detective
2014
Ironside
1967
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Adam-12
1968
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Quotidien
2016
Champs-Elysées
1982
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
My Three Sons
1960
Daniel Boone
1964
Medical Center
1969
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Intimate Portrait
1993
The Oscars
1953
Gunsmoke
1955
Midi Première
1975
Spécial cinéma
1974
Numéro un
1975
Goldene Kamera
1984
ABC Afterschool Special
1972
Taxi Driver
1976
La semaine des 4 Julie
2020
Mayberry R.F.D.
1968
The Partridge Family
1970
Ghost Story
1972
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
1969
HBO First Look
1992
Rove
1999
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
1972
Contact
1997
Julia
1968
Inside Man
2006
The Directors
1999
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Beau geste
2023
Cérémonie des César
1976
Elysium
2013
Lo + plus
1995
Panic Room
2002
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
Harty
1983
A Private Life
2025
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
The Emmy Awards
1949
Maverick
1994
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998
Mr. Scorsese
2025
The Paul Lynde Show
1972
Flightplan
2005
The Brave One
2007
Beach House
1977
The Mauritanian
2021
Sommersby
1993
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
1972
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
1976
The Accused
1988
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
The Early Show
1999
Paper Moon
1974
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1973
Carnage
2011
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
The Addams Family
1973
Little Man Tate
1991
A Very Long Engagement
2004
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
Breakdown: 1975
2025
Hotel Artemis
2018
Nell
1994
Nim's Island
2008
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
Anna and the King
1999
NYAD
2023
The Beaver
2011
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Bugsy Malone
1976
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
Love, Antosha
2019
Catchfire
1990
Shadows and Fog
1991
Freaky Friday
1976
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
Kung Fu
1972
Carny
1980
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
2002
Tom Sawyer
1973
Motherhood
2009
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
Candleshoe
1977
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
Foxes
1980
Napoleon and Samantha
1972
Hollywood’s Children
1982
The Blood of Others
1984
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
1972
Mickey's 50
1978
Abby Singer
2003
Kansas City Bomber
1972
The Making of '...And God Spoke'
1994
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
Five Corners
1987
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2001
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
2024
Stealing Home
1988
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
1998
Siesta
1987
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
1974
Mesmerized
1985
The True Story of Hannibal
2005
One Little Indian
1973
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
Svengali
1983
Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin
2021
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999
Becoming Iconic
2018
Echoes of a Summer
1976
Shooting 'Panic Room'
2004
100 Films and a Funeral
2007
The Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs
2005
Hinckley
2024
Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World
1998
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
Movies Are My Life
1988
O'Hara's Wife
1982
Menace on the Mountain
1970
Cinefile: Reel Women
1995
Stop Calling Me Baby!
1977
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
2010
Jodie Foster, une histoire française
2023
Early Directors on Directing
2009
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
1991
The Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence
2005
Henry Fonda for President
2025
Hollywood Cream
2026
Smartare än hjärnan
2025
Grease Day USA
1978
Scorsese's Women
2014
All About Bette
1994
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
—
Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster
2005
The Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning
2005
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
1989
Jodie Promo
1995
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
2013
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A
2016
Everest: The Death Zone
1998
It Was a Wonderful Life
1993
A Look Back with Jodie Foster
2004
Directing · 12
Black Mirror
2011
Orange Is the New Black
2013
House of Cards
2013
Tales from the Darkside
1984
Tales from the Loop
2020
Money Monster
2016
Little Man Tate
1991
Home for the Holidays
1995
The Beaver
2011
Stephen King's Golden Tales
1993
George Romero's Golden Tales 2
1995
The Hands of Time
1978