Jodie Foster Biography, Age, Husband, Children, Films and Oscar

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Jodie Foster Biography

Jodie Foster born Alicia Christian is an American actress, director, and producer.  She has received three British Academy Film Awards, two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and the Cecil B DeMille Award. As a director, she has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

Jodie started her modelling career when she was a child with three years old. She made her acting debut in 1968 in the television sitcom Mayberry R.F.D. Jodie worked in several television series in the late 1960s and early 1970s and made her film debut with Disney’s Napoleon and Samantha (1972). Due to her appearances in the musical Tom Sawyer (1973) and Martin Scorsese’s comedy-drama Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), Foster’s breakthrough came with Scorsese’s psychological thriller Taxi Driver (1976), in which she played a child prostitute; at age 14, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Her other known roles as a teenager were in the musical Bugsy Malone (1976) and the thriller The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), and she became a popular teen idol by starring in Disney’s Freaky Friday (1976) and Candleshoe (1977), as well as Carny (1980) and Foxes (1980).

When Foster was in college at Yale she struggled to transition into adult roles until she gained critical acclaim for playing a rape survivor in the legal drama The Accused (1988). In this drama she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.  Three years later she won her second Academy Award for the psychological horror The Silence of the Lambs (1991), in which she portrayed Clarice Starling. Jodie made her debut as a film director the same year with Little Man Tate, and founded her own production company, Egg Pictures, in 1992.

The company’s first production was Nell (1994), in which she also played the title role, garnering her fourth nomination for an Academy Award. Her other successful films in the 1990s were the romantic drama Sommersby, western comedy Maverick (1994), science fiction Contact (1997), and period drama Anna and the King (1999).

In the early 2000s Jodi experienced career setbacks that included the cancellation of a film project and the closing down of her production company, but she then starred in four commercially successful thrillers: Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), and The Brave One (2007). She has mainly focused on directing in the 2010s, directing the films The Beaver (2011) and Money Monster (2016),  as well as episodes for Netflix television series Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, and Black Mirror. Other films that she  starred includes Carnage (2011), Elysium (2013), and Hotel Artemis (2018).

Jodie Foster Age | How Old Is Jodie Foster

Jodie was born on November 19, 1962 in Los Angeles, California. She is 56 years old as of 2019.

How Tall Is Jodie Foster | Jodie Foster Height | Jodie Foster Measurements

Jodie stands at a height of 1.61 m and a Body Measurements‎ of ‎34-24-33.

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Jodie was born in Los Angeles, Calilfornia. She is a child of Evelyn Ella and Lucius Fisher Foster III. Jodie’s father came from a wealthy Chicago family whose forebears included John Alden, who arrived in North America on the Mayflower in 1620. Lucius Jodie’s father was a Yale University graduate, a decorated U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, and a real estate broker.

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Before marrying Brandy in Las Vegas in 1953 Lucius had three sons from an earlier marriage . His wife Brandy was of German heritage and was brought up   in Rockford, Illinois.  Jodie also has Irish roots, with ancestry that can be traced back to County Cork. Before she was born Brandy and Lucius had three other children: daughters Lucinda “Cindy” Foster (born 1954) and Constance “Connie” Foster (born 1955), and son Lucius Fisher “Buddy” Foster (born 1957). Their marriage ended before Foster was born, and she never established a relationship with her father.

Following the divorce, Brandy raised the children with her partner in Los Angeles.  She worked as a publicist for film producer Arthur P. Jacobs, until focusing on managing the acting careers of Buddy and Jodie.  Although Foster was officially named Alicia, her siblings began calling her “Jodie”, and the name stuck.  Foster was a gifted child who learned to read at the age of three.

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Jodie attended a French-language prep school, the Lycée Français de Los Angeles. Her fluency in French has enabled her to act in French films, and she also dubs herself in French-language versions of most of her English-language films.  She also understands Italian, although she does not speak it, as well as some German  and Spanish.

At her graduation in 1980, she delivered the valedictory address for the school’s French division. Already a successful actor, Foster attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.  She majored in literature, writing her thesis on Toni Morrison under the guidance of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and graduated magna cum laude in 1985.  She returned to Yale in 1993 to address the graduating class, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 1997.

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Foster rarely talks about her private life during interviews, and she has stated that she “values privacy against all else” due to having spent most of her life in the public eye. Jodie lives in Los Angeles, and while partnered with Cydney Bernard she has two sons, Charles “Charlie” Foster (b. 1998) and Christopher “Kit” Foster (b. 2001). Jodie met Bernard on the set of Sommersby (1993) and was in a relationship with her from 1993 to 2008.

Foster married actress and photographer Alexandra Hedison in April 2014. In 2011 she stated that having children has made her take on fewer projects: “It is a big sacrifice to leave home. I want to make sure that I feel passionate about the movies I do because it is a big sacrifice … Even if you take the average movie shoot of four months – you have three weeks’ prep, press duties here and abroad, dubbing and looping, magazine covers, events and premieres – that’s eight months out of a year. That’s a long time. If you do two movies back-to-back, you’re never going to see your children.”

Jodie Foster Gay | Jodie Foster Lesbian

Foster’s sexual orientation became subject to public discussion in 1991, when activists protesting against the alleged homophobia in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) claimed that she was a closeted lesbian in articles in publications such as OutWeek and The Village Voice.  While she had been in a relationship with Bernard for a long time, Foster first publicly acknowledged it in a speech at The Hollywood Reporter’s “Women in Entertainment” breakfast honoring her in 2007.  In 2013, she addressed coming out in a speech after receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 70th Golden Globe Awards, which led many news outlets to describe her as lesbian or gay,  although some sources noted that she did not use the words “gay” or “lesbian” in her speech.

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Movies From Year 2002 to 2018

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• Hotel Artemis    – Action
• Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché   – Documentary
• Becoming Iconic   – Documentary
• Smile, Jenny, You’re Dead

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Jodie Foster Oscar | Jodie Foster Awards | Jodie Foster Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, most commonly referred to as “The Oscars”, is an annual ceremony established by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in 1927 to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors and writers.  Jodie has received four nominations and has won the award twice. Moreover, she’s the tenth youngest nominee in the Best Supporting Actress Category, is one of two people only (other being Luise Rainer) to win two Oscars before the age of 30 and is the second youngest two-time Oscar winner.

• 1977 – Taxi Driver
• 1989 – The Accused
• 1992 – The Silence of the Lambs
• 1995 – Nell

Jodie Foster Beaver

The Beaver is a 2011 drama film directed by Jodie Foster and written by Kyle Killen. It stars Mel Gibson, Foster, Anton Yelchin, and Jennifer Lawrence. It is Gibson and Foster’s first film together since 1994’s Maverick and Summit Entertainment’s only film to have Entertainment One not distribute it within the United Kingdom.

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Jodie Foster Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver is a neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks and Leonard Harris. It was set in a decaying New York City following the Vietnam War.  The film is based on the story of a lonely veteran (De Niro) working as a taxi driver, who descends into insanity as he plots to assassinate both the presidential candidate (Harris) for whom the woman he is infatuated with (Shepard) works, and the pimp (Keitel) of an underage prostitute (Foster) he befriends.

Jodie Foster Director

Foster released her first feature film as a director, Little Man Tate in October 1991.  It is a  drama about a child prodigy who struggles to come to terms with being different.  The main role was played by previously unknown actor Adam Hann-Byrd, and Foster co-starred as his working-class single mother. She had found the script from the “slush pile” at Orion Pictures,  and explained that for her debut film she “wanted a piece that was not autobiographical, but that had to do with the 10 philosophies I’ve accumulated in the past 25 years. Every single one of them, if they weren’t in the script from the beginning, they’re there now.”

Although Jodie was publicly lauded for her choice to become a director, many reviewers felt that the film itself did not live up to the high expectations, and regarded it as “less adventurous than many films in which [she] had starred”. Regardless, it was a moderate box office success.  Foster’s final film appearance of the year came in a small role as a prostitute in Shadows and Fog (1991), directed by Woody Allen, with whom she had wanted to collaborate since the 1970s.

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Jodie Foster Plane

Flightplan(2005) is  psychological thriller mystery film directed by Robert Schwentke, written by Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray, and starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Kate Beahan, Greta Scacchi, Sean Bean, and Matt Bomer (in his film debut). A co-production of United States and Germany, the film’s narrative follows Kyle Pratt, a widowed American aircraft engineer living in Berlin, who flies back to the U.S with her daughter and her husband’s body only to lose her daughter during the flight and must struggle to find her while proving her sanity at the same time.

The plot’s basic premise (albeit with a very different denouement) is similar to a 1955 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents titled, “Into Thin Air”, as well as Hitchcock’s 1938 film The Lady Vanishes. It is also reminiscent of the 1950 British film So Long at the Fair.

Jodie Foster Wedding

Jodie married her girlfriend Alexandra Hedison in 2014.  The two began dating in October 2013, but have kept mum on their relationship. The couple made their first public appearance together that same month at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts gala in Beverly Hills.

Back in January 2013, Foster officially came out as gay during an emotional speech at the Golden Globes.

“I did my coming out a thousand years ago back in the stone age, in those quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and family,” she told the star-studded audience while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. “Now I’m told every celebrity is expected [to share] the details of their private life with a reality show.”

How Much Is Jodie Foster Worth

Jodie is an American actress, film director and producer who has an estimated net worth of $100 million dollars.

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