Jodie Foster Biography
Alicia Christian Foster
was born on November 19, 1962, in Los Angeles, California. Foster’s
father, Lucian, left the family before she was born; her mother, Evelyn,
supported herself and her four children by working for a film producer.
Advertising executives for Coppertone suntan lotion “discovered”
Foster when she tagged along with her older brother Buddy, a child actor,
to one of his auditions. At age three, she became the tow-headed,
bare-bottomed “Coppertone girl” in a now-famous ad campaign.
By age eight, Foster had expanded her acting repertoire to include
nearly forty commercials, as well as appearances on television shows
such as The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, Bonanza, and The Partridge
Family. By the time she was ten years old, her acting jobs were
supporting the entire Foster family. Her feature film debut came in 1972
with the Disney film Napoleon and Samantha. In the next five years, she
appeared in no fewer than eleven more films, bringing to each role a
precocious intelligence that impressed both critics and filmmakers.
In 1976, Foster made what she has referred to as the film that changed
her life--the dark, violent Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese.
Her performance won her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting
Actress.
Unlike many young actors, Foster, who learned to read at age three,
chose not to sacrifice her education to her growing film career. After
graduating in 1980 from Los Angeles Lycee Francais (where she delivered
the valedictory address in perfect French), she enrolled at Yale
University. In March 1981, however, Foster was dragged unwillingly into
the international spotlight when John Hinckley, Jr. attempted to
assassinate President Ronald Reagan, stating as his primary motive the
desire to impress the nineteen-year-old actress and Yale freshman.
Foster was so affected by Hinckley’s actions and the subsequent media
frenzy that she published an article in Esquire plaintively entitled
“Why Me?” and refused to speak publicly about the incident any
further.
Foster graduated magna cum laude from Yale in 1985 with a B.A. in
Literature. She made a number of films during and in the few years after
college, but none attracted as much attention or won her as much acclaim
as Taxi Driver. In 1988, however, Foster finally gained respect as an
adult actress--along with an Academy Award--for her portrayal of Sarah
Tobias, the working-class victim of a brutal gang rape in The Accused.
Her next great performance came three years later in the haunting
thriller, The Silence of the Lambs. With darkened hair and a West
Virginia twang, Foster played fledgling FBI agent Clarice Starling
opposite the mesmerizing Anthony Hopkins as
psychologist-cum-serial-killer Hannibal Lecter. At the 1991 Academy
Awards, the film won Best Picture, Best Director (Jonathan Demme), Best
Actor and Best Actress.
Her directorial debut came in 1991 with Little Man Tate, a moderately
well-received film about a child prodigy and his protective single
mother (played by Foster). In 1992, Polygram Filmed Entertaiment
committed to finance three films for Foster’s production company, Egg
Pictures. Foster produced and starred in the first of those films,
1994’s Nell; her performance as a woman who lives in the woods and
speaks in her own invented language earned her a fourth Oscar nomination.
Over the past several years, Foster directed her second film, 1995’s
comedy Home for the Holidays and delivered a Golden Globe-nominated
performance as an astronomer looking for extraterrestrial life in
1997’s Contact. Egg Pictures has several pictures in development, all
of which Foster has the option to produce, direct, and/or star in. In
late 1999, Foster starred in Anna and the King. She is set to direct and
produce Disney’s Flora Plum in 2000, but has reportedly turned down
the opportunity to re-team with Anthony Hopkins in the much-awaited
sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, called Hannibal. Today she lives in
the San Fernando Valley with her son, Charles, who was born on July 20,
1998.
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