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Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker. She has received numerous accolades , including two Academy Awards , three BAFTA Awards , four Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award .
Jodie Foster stars as Meg Altman, a recently divorced woman who, with her daughter Sarah, looks for a new home in New York City. Nicole Kidman was originally cast as Meg, [2] but she left the project due to a knee injury. [3] Foster, who almost joined the cast of Fincher's 1997 film The Game, replaced Kidman. Fincher said Kidman's portrayal was ...
Her second Academy Award came for her portrayal of Clarice Starling in the psychological horror The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Other successful films in the 1990s were Sommersby (1993), Maverick (1994), Nell (1994), Contact (1997), and Anna and the King (1999). Foster made her debut as a director at age 14, when she directed a short film for BBC.
In fact, Foster, 58, remains especially proud of the film’s portrayal of the reality of child sexual exploitation. “I think the movie’s a really important movie,” she says.
Jodie Foster wasn’t planning to be an actress into her 20s, let alone her 60s. “I never thought I'd be an actor when I grew up, and my mom was quite clear about that,” the two-time Oscar ...
The list of openly LGBTQ actors who have earned Oscar nominations is small, but Colman Domingo joined for his role in "Rustin," along with Jodie Foster for "Nyad."
Jodie Foster was the award's first winner for Nell (1994). The most recent winner is Lily Gladstone who won for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). Frances McDormand, Renée Zellweger, and Viola Davis have all won the award twice. Meryl Streep has the most nominations with ten.
Jodie Foster was almost the leader of the resistance! During an appearance on Wednesday's episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the actress and filmmaker, 61, opened up about roles ...