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Jodie Foster (real name Alicia Christian Foster) was born a few months after her parents separated, the fourth child of both. At the beginning of 1963, Foster's mother Brandy and her children moved to her girlfriend in the San Fernando Valley northwest of Los Angeles, at which the major contribution was made to the family upkeep. The relationship lasted until 1976.
Brandy Foster has worked in the film industry. As a single mother, she agreed to for financial reasons, promotional appearances of her son. One of the auditions, the three-time Jodie came along, while she was engaged in an advertisement for Coppertone suntan lotion.
Career
Later, Jodie Foster appeared on television in formats such as Sesame Street, Bonanza, Kung Fu, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Love Story, The Addams Family and Paper Moon. Also as already established movie star, she had TV appearances: 1996 and 1997 had on the TV series Frasier and The X-Files, each in one episode as a caller and a voice in a pure Halluzinationssequenz speaking roles without being seen to.
Her first film role she played in the age of ten flight into the wilderness (Napoleon and Samantha, 1972), a Disney movie. During the 1970s she was filming this studio then a number of other films. Her first major success she had when she was twelve in the comedy Bugsy Malone. As an underage prostitute in Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver (1976), the then 13-year-old became world famous. In the same year she starred in The girl at the end of the road an independently living, highly talented young people, a role that matches their image today. The offer, the role of Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars (Star Wars, page 1977), she had to because of contractual obligations to the Disney Corporation refuse.
In the years 1980 to 1985 Foster studied at the Yale University literature and graduated with Magna Cum Laude from. Their bachelor's thesis, she wrote about the African-American author Toni Morrison. 1997 she was awarded the University an honorary doctorate.
During the study time Foster has written several journal articles and interviewed others Nastassja Kinski. The two women became friends and have been looking for a way to collaborate on a joint film project. The opportunity came in the film Hotel New Hampshire from the year 1984, which was based on a novel by John Irving. In 1988 she took over Indicted originally for Kelly McGillis role envisaged a raped woman, and received her first Oscar.
In 1991 she made her debut in Little Man Tate as a director. In the same year she played in place of Michelle Pfeiffer an FBI agent in The Silence of the Lambs. Their theatrical collaboration with Anthony Hopkins brought in two actors an Oscar. In 2001, she disbanded her production company Egg Pictures, for family reasons. Among the films produced in addition to their own works include Lost Heaven, Waking the Dead and baby blues.
Foster is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. In 2007 she finished second in a ranking of the Hollywood Reporter with fees receivable from an estimated 10 to 12 million dollars per film a ninth place. In July 2008 she took in a Forbes ranking, with salaries amounting to 23 million U.S. dollars (between June 2007 and June 2008) behind Cameron Diaz, Keira Knightley, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow into sixth place.
It has long been planning a film about the life and work of the controversial film director Leni Riefenstahl.
In December 2007 Jodie Foster first publicly confessed to her longtime girlfriend Cydney Bernard. In May 2008 it was reported about an alleged separation of the couple. Jodie Foster is a mother of two sons, who came in 1998 and 2001 to the world.
Filmography
As Actor 1970: The Woman, as Sue-Ellen McIver (TV movie)
1972: Escape into the wilderness, as Samantha
1972: Round Up, as Rita
1973: Tom Sawyer's adventures, as Becky Thatcher
1973: A camel in the Wild West (One Little Indian), as Martha McIver
1973: Kung Fu (TV series), 1 Season, Episode 10 as Alethea
1974: A smile before death) (TV movie, as Liberty Cole
1974: Alice Does not Live Here more than Audrey
1975: Paper Moon (TV series), as Addie Pray
1976: Echoes of a Summer, when Deirdre Striden
1976: Taxi Driver, as Iris Steensma
1976: Bugsy Malone as Tallulah
1976: The girl at the end of the road when Rynn
1976: Freaky Friday, as Annabel Andrews
1977: Candleshoe as Casey Brown
1977: Whispers beach as Teresina
1977: Moment of affection / love waking, as Isabelle Tristan
1980: Foxes, as Jeanie
1980: Faire, as Donna
1982: ghost in the bedroom, as Barbara O'Hara
1983: Obsession - The dark side of fame as Zoe Alexander
1984: Hotel New Hampshire, as Frannie Berry
1984: The Blood of Others, as Hélène 1986: In good and bad times, when Victoria
1987: Siesta, as Nancy
1987: Five Corners - Penguins in the Bronx, as Linda
1988: Indicted as Sarah Tobias
1988: Stealing Home, as Katie Chandler
1990: Catch Fire, as Anne Benton
1991: The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling
1991: Little Man Tate, as Dede Tate
1992: Shadows and Fog (Shadows and Fog)
1993: Sommersby, as Laurel Sommersby
1994: Maverick, as Annabelle Bransford
1994: Nell as Nell Kellty
1997: Contact, as Ellie Arroway
1999: Anna and the King, as Anna Leonowens
2002: Panic Room, as Meg Altman
2002: Lost Heaven, as Sister Assumpta
2004: Matilda - A great love, as Elodie Gordes
2005: Flight Plan - Without a trace) (Flight Plan, as Kyle Pratt
2006: Inside Man, when Madeleine White
2007: The Brave One (The Brave One), as Erica Bain
2008: Nim's Island (Nim's Iceland)
As director
1984: Tales from the Darkside (episode "Do Not Open this box)
1991: Little Man Tate
1995: Home for the Holidays
As producer
1986: In good times and bad
1994: Nell
1995: Home for the Holidays
1998: Baby Blues (The Baby Dance)
2000: Waking the Dead
2002: Lost Heaven
2007: The Brave One
Awards and nominations (selection)
Jodie Foster (1989)
Oscar Academy Awards
1977 nominated as Best Supporting Actress in Taxi Driver
1989 award for Best Actress in The Accused
1992 award for Best Actress in The Silence of the Lambs
1995 Nominated for Best Actress in Nell
Jodie Foster was the first actress who had won at the age of 29 years, two Academy Awards. It shall therefore, measured at the Academy Awards, the most successful actress out there and gave up. 2004 Hilary Swank won her second Oscar is also the age of 29 years, although she was this time slightly more than Jodie Foster in her Oscar for "The Silence of the Lambs."
British Academy Awards
1977 award as most promising newcomer in Taxi Driver and Bugsy Malone
1977 award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in Taxi Driver and Bugsy Malone
Golden Globes
1977 as best actress in a musical or a comedy Welcome to Freaky Friday
1989 award for best actress in a drama in Indicted
1992 award for best actress in a drama in The Silence of the Lambs
1995 Nominated for best actress in a drama in Nell
1998 nominated as best actress in a drama in Contact
2008 Nominated for best actress in a drama in The Brave One
