A double Oscar-winning actor, successful film director and producer, Jodie Foster has been acting since she was two years old. Foster became best known for roles in movies Taxi Driver, The Accused, and as FBI agent Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs. With the new swimmer biopic movie Nyad out now, and a lead in the fourth season of HBO’s True Detective, Foster’s choice of ever more interesting roles continues. Background Alicia Christian Foster (later nicknamed Jodie) was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 19, 1962, to parents Evelyn Brandy Ella and Lucius Fisher Foster III. She was the youngest of four children. Her parents divorced and her mother raised the family with her partner in LA. Foster was a clever child and began reading by the age of 3. She went to a French-language prep school and became fluent in French before going on to Yale University in Connecticut, alongside working in commercials and TV. Career Foster’s career started out as a young child, aged three in a commercial, and the advertising work led to a part in a sitcom called Mayberry RFD. She continued working in commercials and TV such as Paper Moon, and she also […]
