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).

Foster 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.

Known For

The Silence of the Lambs Not in library

The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Taxi Driver Not in library

Taxi Driver

1976

The Simpsons Not in library

The Simpsons

1989

Elysium

Elysium

2013

Inside Man Not in library

Inside Man

2006

Panic Room Not in library

Panic Room

2002

Contact Not in library

Contact

1997

True Detective Not in library

True Detective

2014

The X-Files Not in library

The X-Files

1993

Carnage Not in library

Carnage

2011

Acting

2025 A Private Life as Lilian Steiner
2025 Breakdown: 1975 as Narrator (voice)
2025 Henry Fonda for President as Self (archive footage)
2025 Mr. Scorsese as Self (4 episodes)
2024 Disney Legends Awards Ceremony as Self
2024 Hinckley as Self (archive footage)
2023 NYAD as Bonnie Stoll
2023 Jodie Foster, une histoire française
2023 Beau geste as Self (2 episodes)
2023 Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self (1 episode)
2022 Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
2021 The Mauritanian as Nancy Hollander
2021 Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin as Self (archive footage)
2020 La semaine des 4 Julie as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2019 Love, Antosha as Self
2019 Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America as Self - Actress and Director
2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self (1 episode)
2018 Becoming Iconic as Self
2018 Hotel Artemis as Jean Thomas / Nurse
2018 Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016 Quotidien as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2014 Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women as Self – Host
2014 Scorsese's Women as Mother
2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2014 True Detective as Liz Danvers (6 episodes)
2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self (2 episodes)
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2013 Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array as Narrator (voice)
2013 Elysium as Delacourt In Library
2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011 The Beaver as Meredith Black
2011 Carnage as Penelope Longstreet
2010 Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs as Self
2009 Motherhood as Jodie Foster
2009 Early Directors on Directing as Self
2008 Nim's Island as Alexandra Rover
2007 The Brave One as Erica Bain
2007 AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
2007 100 Films and a Funeral as Self
2007 The Graham Norton Show as Self - Guest (2 episodes)
2006 Inside Man as Madeleine White
2006 Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
2005 Flightplan as Kyle
2005 Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster as Self
2005 The True Story of Hannibal as Self
2005 Silence of the Lambs: The Beginning as Self
2005 Silence of the Lambs: Making Silence of the Lambs as Self
2005 Silence of the Lambs: Breaking the Silence as Self
2004 A Very Long Engagement as Elodie Gordes
2004 The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing as Self
2004 Shooting 'Panic Room' as Self
2004 A Look Back with Jodie Foster as Self
2003 Abby Singer as Jodie Foster (uncredited)
2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self (1 episode)
2003 Celebrities Uncensored as Self (1 episode)
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self (1 episode)
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode)
2002 Panic Room as Meg Altman
2002 The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys as Sister Assumpta
2002 Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
2001 Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
1999 Anna and the King as Anna
1999 Making 'Taxi Driver' as Self
1999 The Early Show as Self - Guest (3 episodes)
1999 Rove as Self (2 episodes)
1999 The Directors as Self (1 episode)
1998 Everest: The Death Zone as Narrator (voice)
1998 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies as Self / Host
1998 Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World as Narrator (voice)
1998 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Self - Host (3 episodes)
1997 Contact as Ellie Arroway
1996 The Daily Show as Self (1 episode)
1995 Cinefile: Reel Women as Self
1995 Jodie Promo as (Archival)
1995 Lo + plus as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1994 Nell as Nell Kellty
1994 Maverick as Annabelle Bransford
1994 All About Bette as Self
1994 Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)
1994 The Making of '...And God Spoke' as Self (archive footage)
1994 Inside the Actors Studio as Self (1 episode)
1993 Sommersby as Laurel Sommersby
1993 It Was a Wonderful Life as Narrator (voice)
1993 Frasier as Marlene (voice) (1 episode)
1993 The X-Files as 'Betty' (voice) (1 episode)
1993 Intimate Portrait as Self (1 episode)
1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 HBO First Look
1991 The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling
1991 Little Man Tate as Dede Tate
1991 Shadows and Fog as Prostitute
1991 The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
1990 Catchfire as Anne Benton
1989 Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife as Narrator (voice)
1989 The Simpsons as Maggie Roark (voice) (1 episode)
1988 The Accused as Sarah Tobias
1988 Stealing Home as Katie Chandler
1988 Movies Are My Life as Self
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest (4 episodes)
1987 Siesta as Nancy
1987 Five Corners as Linda Komkowski
1985 Mesmerized as Victoria
1984 The Blood of Others as Hélène
1984 The Hotel New Hampshire as Franny Berry
1984 Goldene Kamera as Self (1 episode)
1983 Svengali as Zoe Alexander
1983 Harty as Self (1 episode)
1982 O'Hara's Wife as Barbara O'Hara
1982 Hollywood’s Children as Self (archive footage)
1982 Champs-Elysées as Self (1 episode)
1980 Foxes as Jeanie
1980 Carny as Donna
1978 Grease Day USA as Self
1978 Mickey's 50 as Self
1977 Candleshoe as Casey
1977 Beach House as Teresina
1977 Stop Calling Me Baby! as Isabelle Tristan, aka 'Fleur bleue'
1976 Taxi Driver as Iris
1976 Bugsy Malone as Tallulah
1976 Freaky Friday as Annabel Andrews
1976 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane as Rynn Jacobs
1976 Echoes of a Summer as Deirdre
1976 Cérémonie des César as Self - President (1 episode)
1975 Saturday Night Live as Self - Host (1 episode)
1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self (4 episodes)
1975 Numéro un as Self (1 episode)
1975 Midi Première as Self (2 episodes)
1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Audrey
1974 Smile Jenny, You're Dead as Liberty Cole
1974 Paper Moon as Addie Pray (13 episodes)
1974 Spécial cinéma as Self (2 episodes)
1973 One Little Indian as Martha
1973 Tom Sawyer as Becky Thatcher
1973 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Elizabeth Henderson (13 episodes)
1973 The Addams Family as Pugsley Addams (voice) (16 episodes)
1973 The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self (1 episode)
1972 Napoleon and Samantha as Samantha
1972 Kansas City Bomber as Rita
1972 Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family as Pugsley Addams (Voice)
1972 Kung Fu as Alethea Patricia Ingram (1 episode)
1972 The New Scooby-Doo Movies as Pugsley Addams (voice) (1 episode)
1972 The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan as Anne Chan (16 episodes)
1972 The Paul Lynde Show
1972 ABC Afterschool Special as Sharon Lee (1 episode)
1972 Ghost Story as Judy (1 episode)
1972 ABC Afterschool Special as Sue (1 episode)
1970 Menace on the Mountain as Suellen McIver
1970 The Partridge Family as Julie Lawrence (1 episode)
1969 Medical Center
1969 The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Joey Kelly (5 episodes)
1968 Julia
1968 Mayberry R.F.D. as Fairy (1 episode)
1968 Adam-12 as Mary Bennett (1 episode)
1968 Mayberry R.F.D. as Little Girl (1 episode)
1967 Ironside
1964 Daniel Boone as Rachel Pickett (1 episode)
1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
1960 My Three Sons as Priscilla (6 episodes)
1959 Bonanza as Bluebird (1 episode)
1955 Gunsmoke as Susan Sadler (1 episode)
1955 Gunsmoke as Patricia (1 episode)
1955 Gunsmoke as Marieanne (1 episode)
1953 The Oscars as Self (6 episodes)
1949 The Emmy Awards as Self - Winner (1 episode)
1944 Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee (2 episodes)
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary as Self

Directing

2020 Tales from the Loop Director
2016 Money Monster Director
2013 House of Cards Director
2013 Orange Is the New Black Director
2011 The Beaver Director
2011 Black Mirror Director
1995 Home for the Holidays Director
1995 George Romero's Golden Tales 2 Director
1993 Stephen King's Golden Tales Director
1991 Little Man Tate Director
1984 Tales from the Darkside Director
1978 The Hands of Time Director

Writing

1978 The Hands of Time Writer

Production

2025 The Beast in Me Executive Producer
2024 Alok Executive Producer
2018 Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché Executive Producer
2014 True Detective Executive Producer
2007 The Brave One Executive Producer
2002 The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys Producer
2000 Waking the Dead Executive Producer
1998 The Baby Dance Executive Producer
1995 Home for the Holidays Producer
1994 Nell Producer

Crew

2019 Mouthpiece Thanks