Who is Jodie Foster? Lily Tomlin is an American actress and a filmmaker who has worked in films and on television. She is best known as one of the best actresses of her generation. Foster was born on 19th November in the year of 1962. She was born as Alicia Christian Foster in Los Angeles, California, U.S, to the father, Lucius Fisher Foster III, and mother, Evelyn Ella "Brandy”. She is the youngest child of her parents and she has three elder sisters; Amy Foster, Cindy Foster Jones, Connie Foster and an elder brother Buddy Foster. Though she was officially named Alicia, her siblings began calling her "Jodie", and the name stuck. She joined a French-language prep school, the Lycee Francais de Los Angeles. Then she attended Yale University …show more content…
Jodie Foster first came in commercials at the age of three as a child model, as the Coppertone Girl in a television commercial for the iconic brand of suntan lotion. Foster rose to prominence at the age of 13 in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen prostitute Iris, for which she received a nomination for the Oscar and for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Then she was seen working in the musical Bugsy Malone, the thriller The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Disney's Freaky Friday in 1976, Candleshoe in 1977 and Foxes in 1980. In 1988, Foster starrerd movie: The Accused came, which she won several awards, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. Then she was starred as Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee investigating a serial murder case in The Silence of the Lambs, that won the second Academy Award in her name. Some of the films in which Jodie Foster’s great work can be seen are Little Man Tate in 1991, Sommersby in 1993 , Maverick in1994, Nell in1994 , Home for the Holidays in 1995, Contact in1997 , Anna and the King in 1999, Panic Room in 2002 , Flightplan in 2005, Inside Man in 2006 , The Brave One in 2007, Nim's Island in 2008, The Beaver in 2011, Carnage in 2011 , Elysium in 2013 , Money Monster in 2016 and much