Jodie Foster

Alicia Christian Foster (born November 19, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA), known professionally as Jodie Foster, is an American actress, film director, and producer.
Foster began acting in commercials at the age of three, and her first significant role came in 1976 as a child prostitute in Taxi Driver , for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989, for playing a rape victim in The Accused .
In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer.
This performance received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her third Best Actress Academy Award nomination for playing a backwoods hermit in Nell (1994). Her other best-known work includes Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006) and The Brave One (2007).
Foster made her directorial debut in 1991 with Little Man Tate ; she also directed the films Home for the Holidays (1995) and The Beaver (2011).
In addition to her two Academy Awards, she has won three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, the Cecil B DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Filmografy of Jodie Foster

1972 Napoleon and Samantha
1972 Kansas City Bomber
1973 Tom Sawyer
1973 One Little Indian
1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1976 Taxi Driver (nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role)
1976 Echoes of a Summer
1976 Bugsy Malone
1976 The Little Girl Who Lives
1976 Freaky Friday
1977 Moi, fleur bleue
1977 Casotto
1977 Candleshoe
1980 Foxes
1980 Carny
1982 O'Hara's Wife
1983 Svengali
1984 The Hotel New Hampshire
1984 The Blood of Others
1986 Mesmerized
1987 Five Corners
1987 Siesta
1988 Stealing Home
1988 The Accused (winner Best Actress in a Leading Role)
1990 Catchfire
1991 The Silence of the Lambs (winner Best Actress in a Leading Role)
1991 Little Man Tate
1991 Shadows and Fog
1993 Sommersby
1993 It Was a Wonderful Life
1994 Maverick
1994 Nell (nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role)
1997 Contact
1999 Anna and the King
2002 The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
2002 Panic Room
2003 Abby Singer
2004 A Very Long Engagement
2005 Flightplan
2006 Inside Man
2007 The Brave One
2008 Nim's Island
2011 The Beaver
2011 Carnage
2013 Elysium