Jodie Foster

About Jodie Foster

David di Donatello Awards

1977 Taxi Driver (Special David)

1989 The Accused (Best Foreign Actress)

1995 Nell (Best Foreign Actress)

National Society of Film Critics

1977 Taxi Driver

People's Choice Awards

1995 Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture Actress

Hasty Pudding Theatricals

1992 Woman of the Year

American Society of Cinematographers

1996 Board of the Governors Award

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. She has also won two Golden Globes, three BAFTA awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, making her one of the few people to have won all four major motion picture acting awards.

Although Foster's first acting appearance was at three years old, her first significant role came in 1976 as an underage prostitute in Taxi Driver, for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1988 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Oscar for Best Actress. Her films and roles have spanned a wide variety of genres, including thrillers, crime, romance, comedy, children's movies, and science fiction. Popular later films include the box office successes Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006) and The Brave One (2007).