Jodie Foster

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Jodie Foster is an Academy award winning American actress, director and producer

Nov 19, 1962

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: November 19, 1962
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Directors, Atheists, Atheists/Agnostics, Yale University, Film & Theater Personalities, Actresses, Directors, INTJ
  • Spouses: Alexandra Hedison
  • Siblings: Constance Foster, Lucinda Foster, Lucius Foster IV
  • Known as: Alicia Christian Jodie Foster
  • Childrens: Charles Foster, Kit Bernard Foster

Jodie Foster born at

Los Angeles

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Birth Place

Foster has always been open about her sexuality and is a lesbian. Her longtime partner was Cydney Bernard with whom she has two sons: Charles ‘Charlie’ Foster and Christopher ‘Kit’ Foster.

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Personal Life

Jodie Foster was born in California to Evelyn Ella and Lucius Fisher Foster III. Her father was an U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who later turned into a real estate broker. Before Foster was born, her father left her mother.

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Childhood & Early Life

Foster and her three siblings were brought up by her mother singlehandedly, who was a film producer. She attended the Lycee Francais de Los Angeles and before joining the Yale University to pursue literature, she made leisure trips to France.

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Childhood & Early Life

Foster started her career in the movies at the age of three. She starred as a ‘Coppertone girl’ in a television commercial and made TV debut in 1968, in the episode of Mayberry R.F.D.

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Career

In 1969, she appeared in episodes of ‘Gunsmoke’, ‘Daniel Boone’ and ‘The Courtship of Eddie’s Father’. In the following year, she debuted in the television movie, ‘Menace on the Mountain’, in which she worked with Martin Scorsese.

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Career

As a child artist, Foster appeared in many Disney movies, like, ‘One Little Indian (1973)’ and ‘Napoleon and Samantha (1972)’. In her teens as well she continued to work with the Disney movies.

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As a teenager, she made appearances on the French pop music circuit as a singer. And she made her debut in music in France in 1977 and the songs she sang were used as soundtracks of her French movie, Moi, fleur bleue’.

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In 1976, she acted in movies like: ‘Taxi Driver’, ‘Bugsy Malone’ and Freaky Friday’. Coincidently, for all of these movies Foster won awards like, British Academy Film Award and nomination for Golden Globe Award.

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Career

The most prominent work of her career was delivered in the year 1976, ‘Taxi Driver’ (nominated for the Academy Award) and ‘Bugsy Malone’, which earned her two BAFTAs and ‘Freaky Friday’.

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Major Works

‘The Silence of the Lambs’ in 1991 was a big hit. She portrayed the role of a FBI trainee, starring along with Anthony Hopkins. She received an Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA for her performance.

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Major Works