Acting
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.
Filmography
Hexed
Film · 2026
A Private Life
Film · 2025
Breakdown: 1975
Film · 2025
Henry Fonda for President
Film · 2025
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Film · 2025
Mr. Scorsese
Series · 2025
Smartare än hjärnan
Series · 2025
Hinckley
Film · 2024
NYAD
Film · 2023
Jodie Foster, une histoire française
Film · 2023
Beau geste
Series · 2023
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Series · 2023
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Series · 2022
The Mauritanian
Film · 2021
Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin
Film · 2021
La semaine des 4 Julie
Series · 2020
Love, Antosha
Film · 2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Film · 2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Series · 2019
Becoming Iconic
Film · 2018
Hotel Artemis
Film · 2018
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Film · 2018
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Film · 2017
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A
Film · 2016
Quotidien
Series · 2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Film · 2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Series · 2014
True Detective
Series · 2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Series · 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Series · 2014
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
Film · 2013
Elysium
Film · 2013
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Film · 2012
The Beaver
Film · 2011
Carnage
Film · 2011
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
Film · 2010
Motherhood
Film · 2009
Early Directors on Directing
Film · 2009
Nim's Island
Film · 2008
The Brave One
Film · 2007
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Film · 2007
100 Films and a Funeral
Film · 2007
The Graham Norton Show
Series · 2007
Inside Man
Film · 2006
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Film · 2006
Flightplan
Film · 2005
Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster
Film · 2005
The True Story of Hannibal
Film · 2005
The Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning
Film · 2005
The Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs
Film · 2005
The Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence
Film · 2005
A Very Long Engagement
Film · 2004
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Film · 2004
Shooting 'Panic Room'
Film · 2004
A Look Back with Jodie Foster
Film · 2004
Abby Singer
Film · 2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Series · 2003
Celebrities Uncensored
Series · 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
Panic Room
Film · 2002
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Film · 2002
Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Film · 2002
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Film · 2001
Anna and the King
Film · 1999
Making 'Taxi Driver'
Film · 1999
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Film · 1999
The Early Show
Series · 1999
Rove
Series · 1999
The Directors
Series · 1999
Everest: The Death Zone
Film · 1998
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Film · 1998
Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World
Film · 1998
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Series · 1998
Contact
Film · 1997
The Daily Show
Series · 1996
Cinefile: Reel Women
Film · 1995
Jodie Promo
Film · 1995
Lo + plus
Series · 1995
Nell
Film · 1994
Maverick
Film · 1994
All About Bette
Film · 1994
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Film · 1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Series · 1994
Sommersby
Film · 1993
Frasier
Series · 1993
The X-Files
Series · 1993
Intimate Portrait
Series · 1993
It Was a Wonderful Life
Film · 1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Series · 1992
HBO First Look
Series · 1992
The Silence of the Lambs
Film · 1991
Little Man Tate
Film · 1991
Shadows and Fog
Film · 1991
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Film · 1991
Catchfire
Film · 1990
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
Film · 1989
The Simpsons
Series · 1989
The Accused
Film · 1988
Stealing Home
Film · 1988
Movies Are My Life
Film · 1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Series · 1988
Siesta
Film · 1987
Five Corners
Film · 1987
Mesmerized
Film · 1985
The Blood of Others
Film · 1984
The Hotel New Hampshire
Film · 1984
Goldene Kamera
Series · 1984
Svengali
Film · 1983
Harty
Series · 1983
O'Hara's Wife
Film · 1982
Hollywood’s Children
Film · 1982
Champs-Elysées
Series · 1982
Foxes
Film · 1980
Carny
Film · 1980
Grease Day USA
Film · 1978
Mickey's 50
Film · 1978
The South Bank Show
Series · 1978
Candleshoe
Film · 1977
Beach House
Film · 1977
Stop Calling Me Baby!
Film · 1977
Taxi Driver
Film · 1976
Bugsy Malone
Film · 1976
Freaky Friday
Film · 1976
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Film · 1976
Echoes of a Summer
Film · 1976
Cérémonie des César
Series · 1976
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Series · 1975
Numéro un
Series · 1975
Midi Première
Series · 1975
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Film · 1974
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
Film · 1974
Paper Moon
Series · 1974
Spécial cinéma
Series · 1974
One Little Indian
Film · 1973
Tom Sawyer
Film · 1973
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Series · 1973
The Addams Family
Series · 1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Series · 1973
Napoleon and Samantha
Film · 1972
Kansas City Bomber
Film · 1972
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
Film · 1972
Kung Fu
Series · 1972
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
Series · 1972
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
Series · 1972
The Paul Lynde Show
Series · 1972
ABC Afterschool Special
Series · 1972
Ghost Story
Series · 1972
ABC Afterschool Special
Series · 1972
Film '72
Series · 1971
Menace on the Mountain
Film · 1970
The Partridge Family
Series · 1970
Medical Center
Series · 1969
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Series · 1969
Mayberry R.F.D.
Series · 1968
Adam-12
Series · 1968
Mayberry R.F.D.
Series · 1968
Julia
Series · 1968
Ironside
Series · 1967
Daniel Boone
Series · 1964
My Three Sons
Series · 1960
Bonanza
Series · 1959
Gunsmoke
Series · 1955
Gunsmoke
Series · 1955
Gunsmoke
Series · 1955
The Oscars
Series · 1953
The Emmy Awards
Series · 1949
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
Film