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In December 1993, Warner Bros. hired George Miller to direct, [12] and Contact commenced pre-production. Miller cast Jodie Foster in the lead role, approached Ralph Fiennes to play Palmer Joss and also considered casting Linda Hunt as the President of the United States.
Foster's mother was concerned that her daughter's career would end by the time she grew out of playing children and decided that Foster should also begin acting in films for adult audiences. [24] After the minor supporting role in Alice , Scorsese cast her in the role of a child prostitute in Taxi Driver (1976). [ 25 ]
Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically advanced extraterrestrial life form . It ranked No. 7 on Publishers Weekly ' s 1985 bestseller list .
True Detective star Jodie Foster has been with her wife, Alexandra Edison, for over a decade. Get to know Edison and her history with Foster. All About Jodie Foster’s Wife, Alexandra Hedison
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.
On Sunday, Jan. 5, Jodie Foster won the award for best female actor in a limited or anthology series at the 2025 Golden Globes for her role in True Detective: Night Country.
Jodie Foster shares Charlie and her 22-year-old son, Christopher, with her ex Cydney Bernard. Jodie Foster married actor and filmmaker Alexandra Hedison in 2014. Read on to learn more about Jodie ...
Flightplan is a 2005 mystery psychological thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke from a screenplay written by Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray.It stars Jodie Foster as Kyle Pratt, a recently widowed American aircraft engineer living in Berlin, who flies back to the U.S. with her daughter and her husband's body.