Jodie Foster's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Addams Family (1973) Pugsly Addams The Courtship of Eddie's Father Joey Kelly The New Perry Mason Hildy Haynes AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies Herself - H… Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Elizabeth H… Paper Moon Addie Pray

Main Movie Roles 2008 - Nim's Island 2007 - The Brave One 2006 - Inside Man 2005 - Flightplan 2004 - The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing 2002 - The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys 2002 - Panic Room 1999 - Anna and the King 1997 - Contact 1994 - Nell 1994 - Maverick 1993 - The Making of '...And God Spoke' 1993 - Sommersby 1991 - The Silence of the Lambs 1991 - Little Man Tate 1990 - Catchfire 1988 - The Accused 1988 - Stealing Home 1987 - Siesta 1984 - The Hotel New Hampshire 1980 - Foxes 1980 - Carny 1977 - Candleshoe 1976 - Bugsy Malone 1976 - Taxi Driver 1976 - Freaky Friday 1976 - The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane 1974 - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1973 - Tom Sawyer 1972 - Napoleon and Samantha

BIOGRAPHY:

Alicia C. Foster, better known as Jodie Foster, was born November 19, 1962. Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two in an ad campaign for Coppertone. For four years, she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series "Mayberry R.F.D." (1968), on which her brother, Buddy Foster, was a regular. In 1975, Jodie was offered the role of the prostitute Iris in the movie Taxi Driver (1976), after Melanie Griffith turned it down. 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 French College of Los Angeles and began to study English Literature at Yale University, from where she graduated in 1985. One tragic moment in her life was March 30th, 1981 when John Hinckley (I) attempted to assassinate the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan (I). 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. Despite the fact that Jodie never took acting lessons, she received two Oscars before she was thirty years of age. She received her first award for her part as Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988) and the second one for her performance as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).


TRIVIA:

• Starred in two failed TV shows based on successful movies: _"Paper Moon" (1974)_ (qv) and _"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" (1973)_ (qv).
• Turned down the lead role for _Adventures in Babysitting (1987)_ (qv) that went to 'Elisabeth Shue' (qv).
• Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1989.
• Was considered by 'Sergio Leone (I)' (qv) for the role of Deborah Gelly in his final movie _Once Upon a Time in America (1984)_ (qv), but the role went to 'Elizabeth McGovern (I)' (qv).
• Received an Honorary Degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
• She was fluent in Italian by the age of 18.
• Considers her role in _The Silence of the Lambs (1991)_ (qv) to be a counterpart to her role in _Taxi Driver (1976)_ (qv). In _Taxi Driver (1976)_ (qv), she is a woman in bondage who has to be rescued. In _The Silence of the Lambs (1991)_ (qv), she rescues the captive woman. In an interesting twist, her pimp in _Taxi Driver (1976)_ (qv) was played by 'Harvey Keitel' (qv), who went on to play her future mentor, Jack Crawford, in _Red Dragon (2002)_ (qv).
• Was considered for the role of Sarah Connor in _The Terminator (1984)_ (qv), but the role went to 'Linda Hamilton (I)' (qv).