00:00Alicia Kristen Foster, popularly known as Jodie Foster, is an American actress, director, and producer.
00:27Jodie's first acting appearances were in television commercials.
00:32She then performed on The Doris Day Show, followed by her film debut in Menace on the Mountain,
00:37and a string of Disney productions.
00:40In 1976, Foster made her first notable film role as a 12-year-old child prostitute in the Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver.
00:49The young lady earned herself a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination for that role.
00:55The same year, she also appeared as Tulala in Bugsy Malone and starred opposite Martin Sheen in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.
01:04At age 14, she became the youngest star to host Saturday Night Live,
01:08although Drew Barrymore took that mantle away from her when she hosted the show at the age of 7.
01:14Jodie Foster made the transition from child to adult actor.
01:18However, some of those first post-taxi driver films were not really a success, such as Fox's Stealing Home and Five Corners.
01:25She went on, though, to win an Academy Award for her role as a rape survivor in The Accused.
01:32Jodie Foster's second Academy Award, along with the Golden Globe and BAFTA,
01:37came for her role as the FBI agent Clary Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.
01:42She was playing opposite Anthony Hopkins as the imprisoned Hannibal Lecter.
01:47Later then, she starred in movies like Catch Fire, Nail, Contact, Carnage, Flight Plan, and a few others.
01:55The thrillers Panic Room, Inside Man, and the drama The Brave Man brought Jodie Foster more popularity.
02:03In 2008, the audience warmly welcomed the comedy Nims Island, where their favorite actress took the leading part.
02:11Mom, just a sec. Mom, get into this.
02:22Foster is also a wonderful director.
02:25Her directing debut was the movie Little Man Tate that Jodie created at 29.
02:30Later, the company Polygram Filmed Entertainment provided the director with $100 million to open her own studio,
02:37where Foster worked on her projects Home for the Holidays, The Beaver, and the second season of the series House of Cards.
02:44In 2013, Foster received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award.
02:50It was the perfect timing since her sci-fi work, Elysium, was severely criticized for the first time.
02:57You are here to persuade me to renew our Armadine contracts, yes?
03:03As stood as always.
03:05Come with me.
03:07In 2016, Jodie Foster's directing talent manifested itself in the new project Money Monster.
03:14Ten years later, she was awarded with the Crystal Award by Women in Film for being an outstanding woman with her brilliant efforts and natural talent,
03:23which helped to magnify the role of women in the entertainment industry.
03:28A crazed Jodie Foster fan from Colorado traveled to New Haven, Connecticut to stalk her, but failed to attract her attention or to impress her.
03:36In a desperate attempt to catch her attention, he shot President Ronald Reagan on March 30th in 1981.
03:43Hollywood considered the actress an intellectual person.
03:46Male colleagues were a little afraid of her and did not dare have love affairs with her.
03:51In the winter of 2013, Jodie officially announced that she was gay at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony.
03:58Next year in spring, she married the actress and photographer Alexandra Hedison.
04:04The actress has two children, Charles and Christopher. Their father is unknown.
04:09The boys are said to have been born thanks to IVF.
04:12And their father is presumably Jodie's close friend, Randy Stone, who later became the kid's godfather.
04:19Jodie is a fitness freak.
04:22She enjoys yoga, kickboxing, karate, weightlifting and aerobics.
04:26This famous Hollywood actress is an atheist, but is interested in all kinds of divine texts.
04:33Foster once said that her only regret is that she would love to live life without knowing what it's like to be famous.
04:41However, we are happy to know her as an amazing actress and director.
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