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 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 Taxi Driver (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 Lyc��e Fran?ais 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 Taxi Driver (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 The Accused (1988) and the second one for her performance as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Bio:
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 Taxi Driver (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 Lyc��e Fran?ais 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 Taxi Driver (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 The Accused (1988) and the second one for her performance as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
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As a child, she was attacked by a lion and carried briefly in its mouth while filming Disney's Napoleon and Samantha (1972).Fluent in French by age 14, she spoke her own lines in the film Stop Calling Me Baby! (1977), the film A Very Long Engagement (2004) and the film The Brave One (2007). She learned spanish at a young age. She was also fluent in Italian by age 18.Got the role of Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) after Michelle Pfeiffer turned the role down.Her sister, Connie Foster, was her stand-in during the more explicit scenes in Taxi Driver (1976).Replaced Nicole Kidman in the role of Meg Altman in Panic Room (2002) at the last minute when Kidman injured herself.Foster was pursued by an obsessed fan named John Hinckley Jr.. Hinckley came up with a plan to impress her by assassinating President Ronald Reagan. Shortly before 2:30 PM EST, as Reagan walked out of the hotel's T Street NW exit toward his waiting car, Hinckley emerged from the crowd of admirers and fired a .22-cal. blue steel revolver six times in three seconds, missing the President with all six shots. The first bullet hit White House Press Secretary James Brady in the head. The second hit District of Columbia police officer Thomas K. Delahanty in the back. The third overshot Reagan and hit the window of a building across the street. The fourth hit Secret Service agent Timothy J. McCarthy in the abdomen. The fifth hit the bullet-resistant glass of the window on the open side door of the president's limousine. The sixth and final bullet ricocheted off the side of the limousine and hit the president in his left underarm, grazing a rib and lodging in his lung, stopping nearly an inch from his heart. In 2016, Hinckley was released (under a number of conditions) from the psychiatric hospital in which he had been institutionalized.Because she speaks perfect French, she makes the dubbing over her character's voice for most of her films released in France.Was chosen from among 18,000 applicants, of whom 200 were auditioned, for the role of Iris in Taxi Driver (1976), as screenwriter Paul Schrader wanted an unknown actress for the role.Considers her performance in Nell (1994) as her best one.Made her acting debut in a Coppertone Suntan Lotion commercial when she was 3 years old.Avoids social media such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.Her favorite actors are Robert De Niro, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando and Humphrey Bogart and her favorite actresses are Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton and Katharine Hepburn.Was reading by the time she was three years old.Received her Bachelor's degree in literature, magna cum laude from Yale University in New Haven, CT. (1985)In an article published on September 5, 2006, Foster told the New York Times that she is such a "'serious N.P.R. [National Public Radio]-head', the sort of person who will sit in her garage listening to the car radio until a show is over" that she changed her character in The Brave One (2007) from a newspaper reporter to the host of a public radio show.Has said that her only regret is that she would love to live life without knowing what it's like to be famous.During her college years, was stalked by John Hinckley Jr. who attempted to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan to impress her. (March 30, 1981)Producer of Freaky Friday (2003) Andrew Gunn had initially hoped she would be game to play the mother, as Foster had played the daughter in the original film Freaky Friday (1976). Foster declined, in part because of concerns that the casting stunt would overshadow the movie's overall merit.Was considered for the role of Claire Standish in The Breakfast Club (1985), which went to Molly Ringwald.Made an acceptance speech at a breakfast for Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment, where she paid tribute to her longtime companion Cydney Bernard, ending all speculations about her sexual orientation. (December 2007)An asteroid, 17744 Jodiefoster, was named after her (1998).The two people with whom she has been in her longest-term relationships both worked on The L Word (2004). Cydney Bernard, with whom Foster had her two children (they were together from 1993 to 2008) was a unit production manager on the show, and Alexandra Hedison, whom Foster married in April 2014, played the character Dylan Moreland.Was considered for the role of Alma Coin in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), but was busy filming Elysium (2013). The role ultimately went to Julianne Moore. Coincidentally, Moore replaced Foster as Clarice Starling in the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Hannibal (2001).Turned down the role of Andie Walsh in Pretty in Pink (1986), which went to Molly Ringwald.Her Oscar-winning role as Clarice Starling from her film The Silence of the Lambs (1991) was ranked #6 in the American Film Institute's "Heroes" list in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003).Considers her role in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) to be a counterpart to her role in Taxi Driver (1976). In Taxi Driver (1976), she is a young girl in bondage who has to be rescued. In The Silence of the Lambs (1991), she rescues the captive woman. In an interesting twist, her pimp in Taxi Driver (1976) was played by Harvey Keitel, who went on to play Clarice Starling's (her character in Silence of the Lambs") mentor, Jack Crawford, in Red Dragon (2002).Youngest host of Saturday Night Live (1975) until Drew Barrymore hosted in 1982.Enjoys kickboxing, yoga, karate, aerobics, and weightlifting and collects fancy kitchenware and B&W photos.At age 29, she became the second youngest person to win two Academy Awards, behind Luise Rainer (28). She won twice for Best Actress in a Leading Role for performances she gave at age 24 during filming of The Accused (1988) in the spring of 1987 and at age 26-turning-27 during filming of The Silence of the Lambs (1991) in the winter of 1989-90.Sean Penn's role in The Game (1997) was originally written as a female character with Foster in mind to portray. In the original script, Foster would play the daughter of Michael Douglas's character. However, Douglas insisted that the female character be changed to his sister; Foster did not like the idea as she was far too young to play his sister, and she withdrew from the project.Born Alicia Christian Foster, her three siblings insisted on calling her "Jodie" after their mother's live-in girlfriend, Josephine Dominguez Hill, who was known as "Jo D".Her performance as Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988) is ranked #56 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).Is one of 12 actresses who won the Best Actress Oscar for a movie that also won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for The Silence of the Lambs (1991)). The others are Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night (1934), Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939), Greer Garson for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment (1983), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Frances McDormand for Nomadland (2020).Born to Lucius Fisher Foster (1922-2016), from Colorado, an Air Force colonel and real estate agent, who had three sons from a previous marriage and one daughter from a subsequent marriage; and Evelyn Della "Brandy" Almond (1928-2019), a film producer, from the Bronx, New York. On her father's side, she has deep Colonial American roots in Massachusetts and Connecticut.In July 2016, John Hinckley was released after almost 35 years of commission to St. Elizabeth's Mental Institution. His release was contingent on dozens of conditions, including mandatory residence with his elderly mother in her home in a Williamsburg, Virginia, gated community and a ban on use of social media and/or the internet to read about his own crimes or other assassins. He is also forbidden from attempting or making any contact with an array of people connected to his crimes, including his victims, their relatives, or Jodie Foster.Cited The Deer Hunter (1978) as her favorite film.Can play the guitar, composes songs and is fluent in French and Italian.Decided not to reprise the role of Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001), which eventually went to Julianne Moore.Gave birth to her first child at age 35, a son Charles Foster on July 20, 1998, with partner Cydney Bernard.Her family celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah.Had to pull out of Double Jeopardy (1999) because she became pregnant.Graduated as the class valedictorian from the private academy Le Lyc��e Fran?ais in Los Angeles, California. (June 1980)Has a reported IQ of 132.Ranked #30 on Entertainment Weekly's 50 Smartest People in Hollywood (2007).Was in a serious relationship with Cydney Bernard since they met on the set of the movie Sommersby (1993) until they broke up in 2008.Like Kim Basinger, Foster was also offered the role of Annie Reed in Sleepless in Seattle (1993), but she declined it, because as in the case with Basinger she thought the premise of the movie was ridiculous. The role instead went to Meg Ryan and the film became a massive box office success.Parents divorced three years before she was born. She was raised by her mother Brandy and Josephine Dominguez Hill (1930-1984), Brandy's lesbian lover.At the 31st AFI Life Achievement Awards, Jodie Foster credited Robert De Niro with introducing her to the true craft of acting. During production of Taxi Driver (1976), he would insist that they'd meet for coffee and rehearse their scenes from together at a local diner. After a while, Jodie became bored of the routine until De Niro began improvising lines during their rehearsals. Jodie soon learned to follow his improv as he weaved back and forth to the original script, in essence teaching her how to effectively build a character beyond the screenplay.Her production company, Egg Pictures, is named after the character played by Seth Green in The Hotel New Hampshire (1984) in which Jodie starred.Was considered to play a young version of Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). However, director George Lucas decided to make the character older. |
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Jodie Foster |
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| Height: |
5' 3' (1.60 m) |
| 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 Taxi |
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As a child, she was attacked by a lion and carried briefly in its mouth while filming Disney's Napoleon and Samantha (1972).Fluent in French by age 14, she spoke her own lines in the film Stop Calling Me Baby! (1977), the film A Very Long Engagement (2004) and the film The Brave One (2007). She learned spanish at a young age. She was also fluent in Italian by age 18.Got the role of Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) after Michelle Pfeiffer turned the role down.Her sister, Connie Foster, was her stand-in during the more explicit scenes in Taxi Driver (1976).Replaced Nicole Kidman in the role of Meg Altman in Panic Room (2002) at the last minute when Kidman injured herself.Foster was pursued by an obsessed fan named John Hinckley Jr.. Hinckley came up with a plan to impress her by assassinating President Ronald Reagan. Shortly before 2:30 PM EST, as Reagan walked out of the hotel's T Street NW exit toward his waiting car, Hinckley emerged from the crowd of admirers and fired a .22-cal. blue steel revolver six times in three seconds, missing the President with all six shots. The first bullet hit White House Press Secretary James Brady in the head. The second hit District of Columbia police officer Thomas K. Delahanty in the back. The third overshot Reagan and hit the window of a building across the street. The fourth hit Secret Service agent Timothy J. McCarthy in the abdomen. The fifth hit the bullet-resistant glass of the window on the open side door of the president's limousine. The sixth and final bullet ricocheted off the side of the limousine and hit the president in his left underarm, grazing a rib and lodging in his lung, stopping nearly an inch from his heart. In 2016, Hinckley was released (under a number of conditions) from the psychiatric hospital in which he had been institutionalized.Because she speaks perfect French, she makes the dubbing over her character's voice for most of her films released in France.Was chosen from among 18,000 applicants, of whom 200 were auditioned, for the role of Iris in Taxi Driver (1976), as screenwriter Paul Schrader wanted an unknown actress for the role.Considers her performance in Nell (1994) as her best one.Made her acting debut in a Coppertone Suntan Lotion commercial when she was 3 years old.Avoids social media such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.Her favorite actors are Robert De Niro, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando and Humphrey Bogart and her favorite actresses are Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton and Katharine Hepburn.Was reading by the time she was three years old.Received her Bachelor's degree in literature, magna cum laude from Yale University in New Haven, CT. (1985)In an article published on September 5, 2006, Foster told the New York Times that she is such a "'serious N.P.R. [National Public Radio]-head', the sort of person who will sit in her garage listening to the car radio until a show is over" that she changed her character in The Brave One (2007) from a newspaper reporter to the host of a public radio show.Has said that her only regret is that she would love to live life without knowing what it's like to be famous.During her college years, was stalked by John Hinckley Jr. who attempted to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan to impress her. (March 30, 1981)Producer of Freaky Friday (2003) Andrew Gunn had initially hoped she would be game to play the mother, as Foster had played the daughter in the original film Freaky Friday (1976). Foster declined, in part because of concerns that the casting stunt would overshadow the movie's overall merit.Was considered for the role of Claire Standish in The Breakfast Club (1985), which went to Molly Ringwald.Made an acceptance speech at a breakfast for Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment, where she paid tribute to her longtime companion Cydney Bernard, ending all speculations about her sexual orientation. (December 2007)An asteroid, 17744 Jodiefoster, was named after her (1998).The two people with whom she has been in her longest-term relationships both worked on The L Word (2004). Cydney Bernard, with whom Foster had her two children (they were together from 1993 to 2008) was a unit production manager on the show, and Alexandra Hedison, whom Foster married in April 2014, played the character Dylan Moreland.Was considered for the role of Alma Coin in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), but was busy filming Elysium (2013). The role ultimately went to Julianne Moore. Coincidentally, Moore replaced Foster as Clarice Starling in the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Hannibal (2001).Turned down the role of Andie Walsh in Pretty in Pink (1986), which went to Molly Ringwald.Her Oscar-winning role as Clarice Starling from her film The Silence of the Lambs (1991) was ranked #6 in the American Film Institute's "Heroes" list in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003).Considers her role in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) to be a counterpart to her role in Taxi Driver (1976). In Taxi Driver (1976), she is a young girl in bondage who has to be rescued. In The Silence of the Lambs (1991), she rescues the captive woman. In an interesting twist, her pimp in Taxi Driver (1976) was played by Harvey Keitel, who went on to play Clarice Starling's (her character in Silence of the Lambs") mentor, Jack Crawford, in Red Dragon (2002).Youngest host of Saturday Night Live (1975) until Drew Barrymore hosted in 1982.Enjoys kickboxing, yoga, karate, aerobics, and weightlifting and collects fancy kitchenware and B&W photos.At age 29, she became the second youngest person to win two Academy Awards, behind Luise Rainer (28). She won twice for Best Actress in a Leading Role for performances she gave at age 24 during filming of The Accused (1988) in the spring of 1987 and at age 26-turning-27 during filming of The Silence of the Lambs (1991) in the winter of 1989-90.Sean Penn's role in The Game (1997) was originally written as a female character with Foster in mind to portray. In the original script, Foster would play the daughter of Michael Douglas's character. However, Douglas insisted that the female character be changed to his sister; Foster did not like the idea as she was far too young to play his sister, and she withdrew from the project.Born Alicia Christian Foster, her three siblings insisted on calling her "Jodie" after their mother's live-in girlfriend, Josephine Dominguez Hill, who was known as "Jo D".Her performance as Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988) is ranked #56 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).Is one of 12 actresses who won the Best Actress Oscar for a movie that also won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for The Silence of the Lambs (1991)). The others are Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night (1934), Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939), Greer Garson for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment (1983), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Frances McDormand for Nomadland (2020).Born to Lucius Fisher Foster (1922-2016), from Colorado, an Air Force colonel and real estate agent, who had three sons from a previous marriage and one daughter from a subsequent marriage; and Evelyn Della "Brandy" Almond (1928-2019), a film producer, from the Bronx, New York. On her father's side, she has deep Colonial American roots in Massachusetts and Connecticut.In July 2016, John Hinckley was released after almost 35 years of commission to St. Elizabeth's Mental Institution. His release was contingent on dozens of conditions, including mandatory residence with his elderly mother in her home in a Williamsburg, Virginia, gated community and a ban on use of social media and/or the internet to read about his own crimes or other assassins. He is also forbidden from attempting or making any contact with an array of people connected to his crimes, including his victims, their relatives, or Jodie Foster.Cited The Deer Hunter (1978) as her favorite film.Can play the guitar, composes songs and is fluent in French and Italian.Decided not to reprise the role of Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001), which eventually went to Julianne Moore.Gave birth to her first child at age 35, a son Charles Foster on July 20, 1998, with partner Cydney Bernard.Her family celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah.Had to pull out of Double Jeopardy (1999) because she became pregnant.Graduated as the class valedictorian from the private academy Le Lyc��e Fran?ais in Los Angeles, California. (June 1980)Has a reported IQ of 132.Ranked #30 on Entertainment Weekly's 50 Smartest People in Hollywood (2007).Was in a serious relationship with Cydney Bernard since they met on the set of the movie Sommersby (1993) until they broke up in 2008.Like Kim Basinger, Foster was also offered the role of Annie Reed in Sleepless in Seattle (1993), but she declined it, because as in the case with Basinger she thought the premise of the movie was ridiculous. The role instead went to Meg Ryan and the film became a massive box office success.Parents divorced three years before she was born. She was raised by her mother Brandy and Josephine Dominguez Hill (1930-1984), Brandy's lesbian lover.At the 31st AFI Life Achievement Awards, Jodie Foster credited Robert De Niro with introducing her to the true craft of acting. During production of Taxi Driver (1976), he would insist that they'd meet for coffee and rehearse their scenes from together at a local diner. After a while, Jodie became bored of the routine until De Niro began improvising lines during their rehearsals. Jodie soon learned to follow his improv as he weaved back and forth to the original script, in essence teaching her how to effectively build a character beyond the screenplay.Her production company, Egg Pictures, is named after the character played by Seth Green in The Hotel New Hampshire (1984) in which Jodie starred.Was considered to play a young version of Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). However, director George Lucas decided to make the character older. |
| Trademarks: |
Husky voice
Athletic figure |
| Quotes: |
Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
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[on her role in Taxi Driver (1976), when she was age 12] I spent four hours with a shrink trying to prove I was normal enough to play a hooker. Does that make sense?
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Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
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It's not my personality to be extroverted emotionally, so acting has been helpful to me. |
| Salaries: |
The Brave One (2007) - $15,000,000
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Flightplan (2005) - $13,000,000
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Panic Room (2002) - $12,000,000
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Anna and the King (1999) - $15,000,000
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Contact (1997) - $9,0 |
| Job title: |
Actress,Director,Producer |
| Others works: |
(1968) TV commercial for Crest toothpaste
TV commercial for Honda (Japan).
TV Commercial for Keri Products (Japan)
TV & magazines for Coppertone
(1999) TV commercial for Morinaga Caffe Latte (in Japan)
(1975) TV commercial for One a Vitamins
(1971) |
| Spouse: |
Alexandra Hedison (April 20, 2014 - present) |
| Children: |
Kit Bernard FosterCharles Bernard Foster |
| Parents: |
Evelyn Ella \"Brandy\" Foster (Almond)
Lucius Fisher Foster III
David Hedison
Bridget Hedison
Evelyn Foster |
| Relatives: |
Buddy Foster (Sibling)
Cindy Foster Jones (Sibling)
Connie Foster (Sibling)
Serena Hedison (Sibling) |
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