Jodie Foster — Movies, Bio, Popularity, Filmography & Fame Trend

Summary

Updated 2026-06-09

Two Oscars by thirty, one for playing a child prostitute in Taxi Driver at twelve, the other for Clarice Starling twenty years on. The range runs from Disney teen to FBI trainee to prestige TV detective, and the intensity never dilutes.

Biography

About

Foster started as a child model and became a teen idol through Disney films like Freaky Friday, then drew an Oscar nomination at fourteen for Taxi Driver's twelve-year-old prostitute. After Yale, she won Best Actress twice in three years—first for a rape victim in The Accused, then for Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs. Two more nominations followed for Nell and Nyad three decades apart. She founded Egg Pictures in 1992 and directed four features, including Little Man Tate and Money Monster, plus episodes of Black Mirror and House of Cards. In 2024 she won an Emmy and Golden Globe f…

Voice

In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster

said10 Jul 2007

I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.

— As quoted in Calgary Sun (10 July 2007)

Jodie Foster

said2004

Normal is not something to aspire to, it is something to get away from.

— As quoted in Diamonds, Pearls & Stones : Jewels of Wisdom for Young Women from Extraordinary Women of the World (2004) edited by Jennifer

Jodie Foster

said1992

I'd like to dedicate this award to all the women before me that never had the chances that I've had, the survivors, the pioneers and the outcasts. My blood, my tradition.

— Oscar Acceptance Speech, 1992 Academy Awards, Best Actress in a Leading Role, The Silence of the Lambs.

Jodie Foster

said1989