Line #7 Creator/JodieFoster


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3	->''"I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better, not worse."''
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5	Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress, director and producer. She received her first [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] nomination at age thirteen (for ''Film/TaxiDriver'') and has never looked back.
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7	More than three decades later -- having gained two Best Actress Oscars and two more nominations, a never-ending stream of critical praise and a flawless record as a top box-office draw for her wide releases -- Foster is known for playing a wide variety of lead roles in virtually every single genre, including foreign films, films she's directed, indie films, and some of the most popular movies of all time. Her Clarice Starling in ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' was named the top heroine in American film by the AFI (as well as earning her a second Oscar for a lead role). Her role in ''Film/{{Contact}}'' led to an asteroid being named in her honour, and at the 70th annual UsefulNotes/{{Golden Globe Award}}s, she received a lifetime achievement award and publicly came out about her sexuality for the first time, while thanking her then-partner Cydney Bernard.
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9	Besides her acting work, Foster has directed four films: ''Film/LittleManTate'', ''Film/HomeForTheHolidays'', ''Film/TheBeaver'' and ''Film/MoneyMonster''. She also directed two episodes for ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', one for ''Series/{{House of Cards\|US}}'', and [[Recap/BlackMirrorArkangel one]] for ''Series/BlackMirror''.
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11	She's rumored to have a genius-level IQ, graduated ''magna cum laude'' from Yale, and was the first teenage celebrity to host ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' at age 14 (and was the youngest host until Creator/DrewBarrymore hosted in 1982 at age seven). Jodie Foster has given "celebrity" an... ''interesting'' definition, to say the least.
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13	More tragically, she was also the victim of a stalker that eventually escalated into her stalker attempting to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ronald_Reagan assassinate President Ronald Reagan]] in 1981 and dedicating it to her. This incident scarred her enough that to this day, interviewers are warned not to bring it up before talking to her, and she's been known to walk off immediately if they ignore that advice. She's only talked about it twice: first, in a 1982 essay for ''Esquire'' magazine entitled "Why Me?", and in 1999 on ''The Charlie Rose Show.'' She was also [[https://youtu.be/m0R2GHaaHUs?si=Pam1oIQRgHZgJ5yV interviewed]] in 1981 by PBS when the investigation was still ongoing.
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15	In general, Foster is very secretive about her private life; she gave birth to two sons but has not revealed the identity of the children's father(s), and as mentioned above, took until 2013 to come out of the closet about being in relationships with women. In 2014, she married actor and photographer Alexandra Hedison.
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17	!!Filmography on this wiki:
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21	* ''Film/AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore'' (1974) as Audrey
22	* ''Film/TaxiDriver'' (1976) as Iris
23	* ''Film/BugsyMalone'' (1976) as Tallulah
24	* ''Film/{{Freaky Friday\|1976}}'' (1976) as Annabel Andrews / Ellen Andrews
25	* ''Film/TheLittleGirlWhoLivesDownTheLane'' (1976) as Rynn Jacobs
26	* ''Film/{{Candleshoe}}'' (1977) as Casey Brown
27	* ''Film/{{Carny}}'' (1980) as Donna
28	* ''Literature/TheHotelNewHampshire'' (1984) as Frannie Berry
29	* ''Film/TheAccused'' (1988) as Sarah Tobias
30	* ''Film/StealingHome'' (1988) as Katie Chandler
31	* ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' (1991) as Clarice Starling
32	* ''Film/LittleManTate'' (1991) as Dede Tate
33	* ''Film/ShadowsAndFog'' (1991) as Jodie
34	* ''Film/{{Sommersby}}'' (1993) as Laurel Sommersby
35	* ''Film/{{Maverick}}'' (1994) as Annabelle Bransford
36	* ''Film/{{Nell}}'' (1994) as Nell Kellty
37	* ''Film/{{Contact}}'' (1997) as Dr. Eleanor Arroway
38	* ''Film/AnnaAndTheKing'' (1999) as Anna Leonowens
39	* ''Film/TheDangerousLivesOfAltarBoys'' (2002) as Sister Assumpta
40	* ''Film/PanicRoom'' (2002) as Meg Altman
41	* ''Film/AVeryLongEngagement'' (2004) as Elodie Gordes
42	* ''Film/{{Flightplan\|2005}}'' (2005) as Kyle Pratt
43	* ''Film/InsideMan'' (2006) as Madeline White
44	* ''Film/TheBraveOne'' (2007) as Erica Bain
45	* ''Literature/NimsIsland'' (2008) as Alexandra Rover
46	* ''Film/TheBeaver'' (2011) as Meredith Black
47	* ''Film/{{Carnage\|2011}}'' (2011) as Penelope Longstreet
48	* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'' (2013) as Defense Secretary Jessica Delacourt
49	* ''Film/HotelArtemis'' (2018) as Jean "The Nurse" Thomas
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53	* ''Series/MayberryRFD'' (2 episodes, 1968–70) as Fairy / Little Girl
54	* ''Series/{{Julia}}'' (episode "Romeo and Julia", 1969) as Cindy Blanchard
55	* ''Series/TheCourtshipOfEddiesFather'' (5 episodes, 1969–71) as Joey Kelly
56	* ''Series/{{Gunsmoke}}'' (3 episodes, 1969–72) as Susan Sadler / Patricia / Marieanne
57	* ''[[Series/WaltDisneyPresents The Wonderful World of Disney]]'' (episode "Menace on the Mountain, 1970) as Suellen [=McIver=]
58	* ''Series/DanielBoone'' (episode "Bringing Up Josh", 1970) as Rachel
59	* ''Series/Adam12'' (episode "Log 55: Missing Girl", 1970) as Mary Bennett
60	* ''Series/NannyAndTheProfessor'' (episode "The Scientific Approach", 1970) as Angela
61	* ''Series/MyThreeSons'' (6 episodes, 1971–72) as Susan / Priscilla Hobson
62	* ''Series/Ironside1967'' (episode "Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Murder", 1972) as Pip Barker
63	* ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'' (episode "A Place to Hide", 1972) as Bluebird
64	* ''Series/ThePartridgeFamily'' (episode "The Eleven-Year Itch", 1973) as Julie Lawrence
65	* ''Series/KungFu1972'' (episode "Alethea", 1973) as Althea Patricia Ingram
66	* ''[[Franchise/PerryMason The New Perry Mason]]'' (episode "The Case of the Deadly Deeds", 1973) as Hildy Haynes
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70	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan'' (1972) as Anne Chan
71	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' (episode "Wednesday Is Missing", 1972) as [[CrossDressingVoices Pugsley Addams]]
72	** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Addams Family\|1973}}'' (episode "The Addams Family in New York", 1973)
73	* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' (episode "[[Recap/FrasierS03E13MoonDance Moon Dance]]", 1996) as Marlene
74	* ''Series/TheXFiles'' (episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E13NeverAgain Never Again]]", 1997) as "Betty"
75	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E20FourGreatWomenAndAManicure Four Great Women and a Manicure]]", 2009) as [[SuddenlySpeaking Maggie Simpson]]
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79	* ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'' episode "Do Not Open This Box" (1988)
80	* ''Film/LittleManTate'' (1993)
81	* ''Film/HomeForTheHolidays'' (1995)
82	* ''Film/TheBeaver'' (2011)
83	* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'' episodes "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS01E03LesbianRequestDenied Lesbian Request Denied]]" (2013) and "[[Recap/OrangeIsTheNewBlackS02E01ThirstyBird Thirsty Bird]]" (2014)
84	* ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS'' episode "Chapter 22" (2014)
85	* ''Film/MoneyMonster'' (2016)
86	* ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode "[[Recap/BlackMirrorArkAngel ArkAngel]]" (2017)
87	* ''Series/TalesFromTheLoop'' episode "Home" (2020)
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91	!!Tropes and trivia about her works:
92	* TheCastShowoff: She's perfectly fluent in French. Due to her unusual upbringing (she spent part of her youth in France and watched numerous local films, then studied at a French school in Los Angeles, graduating as the best of her class), she can speak it without any trace of American accent and demonstrates it in ''Film/AVeryLongEngagement'', ''Film/TheBraveOne'' and ''Stop Calling Me Baby!''. She also dubs herself in French.
93	* CastingGag: Her role in ''The X-Files'', as a voice telling a violent, mentally unstable loner to murder people, is not only exceedingly grim but downright baffling, given her infamous reluctance to discuss the John Hinckley incident.
94	* ContractualPurity: PlayedWith. She made several films for Disney before ''and'' after she became a star as a teen prostitute in ''Film/TaxiDriver''.
95	* FormerChildStar: She is the most extreme Hollywood example of a child actor who grew well and has enjoyed a highly successful adult career.
96	* MagnumOpusDissonance: She considers ''Nell'' to be her best performance. She actually thought her performance in ''Film/TheAccused'' was so bad she was prepared to quit acting over it (before she won the Oscar of course).
97	* MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: She frequently dubs herself in French. She can also speak some Spanish and German.
98	* TheOtherDarrin: She opted not to reprise her role as Clarice Starling in ''{{Film/Hannibal}}'', so Creator/JulianneMoore replaced her.
99	* RealLifeRelative: Her older sister Connie was her stand-in for some of the more risque scenes in ''Film/TaxiDriver''.
100	* RemakeCameo: She was offered the role of the mother in ''Film/FreakyFriday2003'' but turned it down, not wanting the CastingGag to overshadow the movie's publicity.
101	* RomanceOnTheSet: She met Cydney Bernard on ''Film/{{Sommersby}}'' and they were in a relationship for fifteen years.
102	* StarMakingRole: ''Film/TaxiDriver'' established her child career. ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' established her adult career.
103	* WagTheDirector: She changed her character in ''Film/TheBraveOne'' from a television reporter to a radio host because she is an avid listener of the radio.
104	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
105	** She was cast in the MadeForTVMovie ''The Best Little Girl In The World'', but an actor's strike put production on hold. By the time it picked back up again, Jodie was already studying at Yale, so the role went to Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh.
106	** The role of Violet in ''Film/PrettyBaby'' was written for her. She turned it down, not wanting to be {{typecast\|ing}} as teen prostitutes. Brooke Shields was cast for the finished film.
107	** ''The Game'' originally had a part for her as Creator/MichaelDouglas's daughter. The latter insisted that the female character be changed to his sister instead. Feeling she was too young to play his sister, Jodie withdrew from the film.
108	** She was considered for the part of Alex Forrest in ''Film/FatalAttraction''.
109	** She turned down the role of Catherine Tromell in ''Film/BasicInstinct'', which became a StarMakingRole for Creator/SharonStone.
110	** ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'' was written with her in mind to play Thelma. Creator/RidleyScott felt she was too young for the role, and cast Creator/GeenaDavis instead.
111	** Princess Leia in ''Film/ANewHope'' was originally written as a younger character, with Jodie in mind. When George Lucas decided to make the character older, Creator/CarrieFisher was cast.
112	* WordOfSaintPaul: She considers ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs'' to be a SpiritualAntithesis to ''Film/TaxiDriver''. In the latter, she's in bondage and rescued. In the former, she now rescues the young woman. What's more is that Creator/HarveyKeitel plays her pimp in ''Taxi Driver'' and later plays Clarice Starling's mentor in ''Film/RedDragon'' (though Jodie doesn't appear in that film).
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