Jodie Foster

JODIE FOSTER.  American actress and filmmaker. Her accolades include two Academy Awards / three BAFTA Awards / four Golden Globe Awards / a Primetime Emmy Award / a Golden Globe Cecil B DeMille Award in 2013 and the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2021. She began her career as a child model and gained recognition as a teen idol through Disney films including Napoleon and Samantha (1972) / Freaky Friday (1976) and Candleshoe (1977). For her role as a teenage prostitute in Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. 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, she transitioned into mature leading roles and won Academy Awards for Best Actress for playing a rape victim in The Accused (1988) and Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). She was also nominated for her performance in Nell (1994). Her other 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) and The Mauritanian (2021)