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Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress and filmmaker. Foster started her career as a child actor before establishing herself as a leading actress in film. As a performer, she is known for her versatility. She has received several accolades, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the Honorar…
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Born 19 November 1962 · Q41351
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2026· 5 entries
“has done nothing but break our mother”
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“Some people get quick breaks and declare,”
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AOL: Jodie Foster to Voice Witch Queen in Disney's Upcoming Animated Film 'Hexed'
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2026).
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2025· 3 entries
The Guardian: Jodie Foster, who began her career aged three, calls acting ‘a cruel job’ she never would have chosen
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for True Detective, season 4 (2025).
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The Guardian: A Private Life review – Jodie Foster is a sleuthing shrink in French-language Hitchcockian mystery
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2024· 8 entries
Immortalized her hand and footprints in wet cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California
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The Guardian: Jodie Foster as Princess Leia? Here’s what Star Wars would have looked like
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The Guardian: True Detective: Night Country review – a blazing Jodie Foster makes this show better than ever before
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The Guardian: TV tonight: Jodie Foster’s no-nonsense investigator joins the True Detective canon
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The Guardian: Jodie Foster on gen Z, Marina Hyde on the Post Office scandal, and does rejection therapy work? – podcast
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The Guardian: Jodie Foster says generation Z can be ‘really annoying’ to work with
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The Guardian: ‘There are different ways of being a woman’: Jodie Foster on beauty, bravery, and raising feminist sons
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Starred in the fourth season of True Detective, subtitled Night Country, which won her a Primetime Emmy Award, and was an executive producer on Alok, a short film directed by her wife Alexandra Hedison
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2023· 1 entry
Foster appeared in the Netflix biopic Nyad as Bonnie Stoll
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2021· 2 entries
Full Fact rated the claim “Jodie Foster said that attacking the rich was “self-defense”.” Incorrect. There is no evidence that Ms Foster has ever said this..
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for The Mauritanian (2021).
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2018· 1 entry
Was awarded the Yale Undergraduate Lifetime Achievement Award
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2016· 3 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Actress Jodie Foster said that attacking the rich is not envy, it's self-defense.” False.
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (2016).
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Was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star located at 6927 Hollywood Boulevard
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2015· 1 entry
Foster received the Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award at the Athena Film Festival
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2014· 1 entry
Foster married actress and photographer Alexandra Hedison after a year of dating
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2013· 3 entries
Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (2013).
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Foster received the honorary Cecil B
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Addressed her decision to come out in a speech after receiving the Cecil B
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2011· 1 entry
Foster also appeared as part of an ensemble cast with John C
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2010· 1 entry
Explained that her family "ritualizes" all holidays: "I take pains to give my family a real religious basis, a knowledge, because it's being well educated
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2009· 1 entry
Provided the voice for Maggie in a tetralogy episode of The Simpsons titled "Four Great Women and a Manicure"
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2007· 3 entries
“[loves] religions and the rituals. Even though I don”
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In a speech at The Hollywood Reporter's "Women in Entertainment" breakfast honoring her
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Foster told Entertainment Weekly that she is an atheist, though she "[loves] religions and the rituals
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Sitges Grand Honorary Award (2005).
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2002· 2 entries
“Normal is not something to aspire to, it is something to get away from.”
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“I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.”
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2001· 1 entry
Saying that producing was "just a really thankless, bad job"
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1998· 2 entries
Asteroid 17744 Jodiefoster was named in her honor
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Also moved her production company from PolyGram to Paramount Pictures
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress (1997).
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Awarded Saturn Award for Best Actress for Contact (1997).
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1996· 3 entries
Awarded Crystal Award (1996).
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And in an episode of The X-Files in early 1997
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Foster received two honorary awards: the Crystal Award, awarded annually for women in the entertainment industry, and the Berlinale Camera at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for Nell (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress for Nell (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
To address the graduating class and received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 1997
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1992· 5 entries
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1992).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Silence of the Lambs (1992).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for The Silence of the Lambs (1992).
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And in 2003, she was voted Number 23 in Channel 4's countdown of the 100 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time
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And released its first production, Nell, in December 1994
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1991· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Awards for The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
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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
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Foster also starred in the unsuccessful low-budget thriller Catchfire, which had been filmed before Silence, but was released after it in an attempt to profit from its success
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Canceled an interview on NBC's The Today Show when she discovered that Hinckley would be mentioned in the introduction and the producers would not change it
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1989· 4 entries
Awarded David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress for The Accused (1989).
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Awarded Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for Five Corners (1989).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for The Accused (1989).
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Released album “The Fisherman and His Wife”.
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1988· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for The Accused (1988).
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And had attempted to purchase its film rights, as it featured "a real female heroine" and its plot was not "about steroids and brawn, [but] about using your mind and using your insufficiencies to combat the villain
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1987· 1 entry
Her first film after college, the neo-noir Siesta (1987), was rated a failure, but her next project, the independent film Five Corners (1987), was better received
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1985· 2 entries
Studied at Yale University, bachelor's degree (1980–1985).
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Foster struggled to find further acting work
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1982· 1 entry
By Esquire on the condition that "there be no cover lines, no publicity and no photos"
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1981· 1 entry
Hinckley attempted to assassinate United States president Ronald Reagan, wounding him and three other people, claiming that his motive was to impress Foster
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1980· 2 entries
Delivered the valedictorian address for the school's French division
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Gained positive notices for her performances in the independent films Foxes and Carny (1980), before becoming a full-time student at Yale in 1981
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Saturn Awards for The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1978).
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1977· 3 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for Taxi Driver (1977).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Bugsy Malone (1977).
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Were the Italian comedy Casotto and the Disney heist film Candleshoe, which was filmed in England and co-starred David Niven and Helen Hayes
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1976· 2 entries
Was the independent drama Echoes of a Summer, which had been filmed two years earlier
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Bugsy Malone, a British musical that parodied films about Prohibition Era gangsters by having all roles played by children
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1968· 1 entry
To a minor appearance in the sitcom Mayberry R
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1962· 2 entries
In Los Angeles, California, the youngest child of Evelyn Ella "Brandy" (née Almond; 1928–2019) and Lucius Fisher Foster III (1922–2016), a businessman
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Born 1962-11-19.
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