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Hollywood's
Best
Actress
Jodie Foster
Birth Name:
Alicia Christian Foster
Date of Birth:
November 19, 1962
Los Angeles, California
Height:
5' 4"
Alicia Christian Foster was born 1962, her three siblings insisted on calling her
"Jodie". She made her acting debut in a Coppertone suntan lotion commercial when she was 3 years
old and has said that her only regret is that she would love to live life without knowing what it's like to be famous.
For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series "Mayberry
R.F.D." in 1968.
As a youngster, she was mauled by a lion and carried briefly in its mouth during outdoor shooting of a commercial.
In 1975 Jodie was offered to play the prostitute Iris in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received an Academy Award nomination in the "Best Supporting Actress" category, marked a breakthrough in her career.
In 1980 she graduated as the best of her class from the College Lycée Français and began to study English Literature at Yale University, from where she graduated magna cum laude in 1985. One tragic moment in her life was March 30th, 1981 when John Warnock Hinkley Jr. attempted to assassinate the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Hinkley was obsessed with Jodie and the movie Taxi Driver (1976) in which Travis
Bickle, played by Robert De Niro, tried to shoot presidential candidate
Palantine.
Jodie was the second choice to play Princess Leia Organa in
" Star Wars". Despite the fact that she never took acting lessons, she was the first actress to receive two Oscars before the age of thirty. She received her first award for her part as Sarah Tobias in
"The Accused" in 1988 and the second one for her performance as Clarice Starling in
"The Silence of the Lambs" in 1991. Foster got the role of Clarice Starling in
" Silence of the Lambs" after Michelle Pfeiffer turned it down.
Jodie uses her own voice in all of the French versions of any of her movies, because she can speak French fluently.
Her favorite bands are U2 and the Rolling Stones.
Foster had to pull out of
"Double Jeopardy" because she became pregnant and on July 20, 1998
had a son, Charles, born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Foster
owns and chairs her Production Company EGG PICTURES in Los Angeles she founded the
company in 1990. Jodie has two convertibles, enjoys kickboxing, yoga, karate, aerobics, and weightlifting and collects fancy kitchenware and black and white photos.
She loves organic food and her favorite book is "Franny and Zooey" by J.D.
Salinger.
Next Film:
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
(2001)
Character:
Sister Assumpta
Filmography:
Anna and the King
(1999)
Character:
Anna Leonowens
Salary for
Anna and the King: $15,000,000
Contact (1997)
Character: Ellie Arroway
Salary for
Contact: $9,000,000
Maverick (1994)
Character: Annabelle Bransford
Nell (1994)
Character: Nell
Sommersby (1993)
Character: Laurel
Shadows and Fog
(1992)
Character: Prostitute
Little Man Tate (1991)
Character: Dede Tate
The Silence
of the Lambs
(1991)
Character: Clarice Starling
Backtrack (1989)
Character: Anne Benton
Rabbit Ears:
The Fisherman
and His Wife
(1989)
Character:
(voice) Storyteller
The Accused (1988)
Character: Sarah Tobias
Stealing Home
(1988)
Character: Katie Chandler
Siesta
(1987)
Character: Nancy
Five Corners
(1987)
Character: Linda
Shocked
(1986)
Character: Victoria
The Blood of Others
(1984)
(TV)
Character: Helene
Hotel
New Hampshire
(1984)
Character: Frannie
Svengali
(1983) (TV)
Character: Zoe Alexander
O'Hara's Wife (1982)
Character: Barbara O'Hara
Carny
(1980)
Character: Donna
Foxes
(1980)
Character: Jeanie
Candleshoe
(1977)
Character: Casey Brown
Freaky Friday
(1977)
Character: Annabel Andrews
Stop Calling
Me Baby! (1977)
Character: Rosebud
Casotto
(1977)
Character: Teresina Fedeli
The Little Girl Who Lives Down
the Lane
(1976)
Character: Rynn
Bugsy Malone
(1976)
Character: Tallulah
Taxi Driver
(1976)
Character: Iris
Echoes
of a Summer (1976)
Character: Deirdre Striden
The Secret Life of
T.K. Dearing (1975)
(TV)
Character: T.K.
"Paper Moon" (1974)
(TV)
Character: Addie Pray
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
(1974)
Character: Audrey
Smile, Jenny,
You're Dead
(1974)
(TV)
Character: Liberty Cole
One Little Indian
(1973)
Character: Martha McIver
Rookie of the Year
(1973)
(TV)
Character: Sharon Lee
Tom Sawyer (1973)
Character: Becky Thatcher
"Bob & Carol &
Ted & Alice"
(1973)
TV Series
Character: Elizabeth Henderson
The Addams Family
(1973)
Animated
TV Series
Character: Pugsley Addams
Kansas City Bomber (1972)
Character: Rita
Napoleon and Samantha
(1972)
Character: Samantha
"The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan"
(1972) TV Series (voice)
Character:
Anne Chan
Menace on the Mountain
(1970) (TV)
Character: Suellen McIver
Producer:
Flora Plum
(2002)
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2001)
Waking the Dead (1999) (executive)
The Baby Dance (1998)
(TV) (executive)
Home for the Holidays
(1995)
Nell
(1994)
Mesmerized
(1986) (co-producer)
Director:
Flora Plum (2002)
Home for
the Holidays (1995)
Little Man Tate (1991)
"Tales from
the Darkside" (1984)
TV Series
Jodie's
Personal Quotes:
"Being understood is not the most essential thing in life."
"I spent four hours with a shrink trying to prove I was normal enough to play a hooker. Does that make sense?" on her role in Taxi Driver (1976) when she was 13.
"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away/ from"
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable"
"It's not my personality to be extroverted emotionally, so acting has been helpful to me."
"I could tell you the criticism backward and forward about Little Man Tate (1991). But it didn't bother me as long as they were talking about the work and not about 'she has fat thighs' or something. But I fared really well with 'Tate,' so I shouldn't be complaining."
"It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet."