Jodie Foster

Full Name - Jodie Christian Foster

Date of Birth - November 19th 1962

Place/Country of Birth - Los Angeles California, USA

Occupation - Actress, Director, Producer

Education - Lycee Francais, Los Angeles, California

Parents - Lucius & Evelyn Foster

Other Info - Jodie started her screen career very young in commercials, and made her breakthrough in the movies in 1976, aged 14, in Taxi Driver and Bugsy Malone, winning the Los Angeles Film Critics Association New Generation award, National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress (Taxi Driver), and two BAFTA awards for Best Supporting Actress and Most Promising Newcomer (Taxi Driver & Bugsy Malone). Since then she`s gone on to win many more awards for her acting, including Oscars for Best Actress in The Accused, 1988, and Silence of the Lambs, 1991. She`s now a World famous actress and one of the best of her generation. She was raised by her mother Evelyn, with sisters Lucinda and Constance, and brother Buddy, who said in a book they`d get the occasional strap across the backside from their mother when they misbehaved.


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