Biography of Jodie FosterDate of Birth
19 November 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name
Alicia Christian Foster
Height
5' 3½" (1.61 m)
Mini Biography
Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years, she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series "Mayberry R.F.D." (1968), on which her brother, Buddy Foster, was a regular. In 1975, Jodie was offered the role of the prostitute Iris in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received an Academy Award nomination in the "Best Supporting Actress" category, marked a breakthrough in her career. In 1980, she graduated as the best of her class from the College Lycée Français and began to study English Literature at Yale University, from where she graduated magna cum laude in 1985. One tragic moment in her life was March 30th, 1981 when John Hinckley attempted to assassinate the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Hinkley was obsessed with Jodie and the movie Taxi Driver (1976), in which Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro, tried to shoot presidential candidate, Palantine. Despite the fact that Jodie never took acting lessons, she received two Oscars before she was thirty years of age. She received her first award for her part as Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988) and the second one for her performance as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 "Sexiest Stars" in film history (#45). [1995]
Was supposed to be Commencement Speaker for Smith College in Massachusetts but eventually had to decline. [2000]
Uses her own voice in all of the French versions of any of her movies because she can speak French fluently.
As a youngster, was mauled by a lion and carried briefly in its mouth after a day of filming a Disney movie
Majored in literature at Yale; graduated magna cum laude in 1985.
Son, Charles, born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. [20 July 1998]
Had to pull out of Double Jeopardy (1999) because she became pregnant.
Ranked #18 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Received honorary Doctorate from Yale University. [1997]
Mother, Brandy, managed her through age 20.
Owns and chairs Production Company EGG PICTURES in Los Angeles, founded in 1990.
John Hinckley claimed that he attempted to kill Ronald Reagan in order to impress her.
Graduated in 1980 as the class valedictorian from the private academy Lycée Français in Los Angeles.
Was reading by the time she was three years old.
Fluent in French by age 14, she spoke her own lines in the 1977 film Moi, fleur bleue (1977) and the 2004 film Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004).
Sister of Buddy Foster and Connie Foster.
Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28. [1976]
Born Alicia Christian Foster in 1962; her three siblings insisted on calling her "Jodie."
Made her acting debut in a Coppertone suntan lotion commercial when she was 3 years old. Has said that her only regret is that she would love to live life without knowing what it's like to be famous.
For Sommersby (1993), Foster learned how to handle a horse-pulled buckboard.
Was offered a role in Me and Rubyfruit (1989) twice and turned it down.
Has two convertibles.
Enjoys kickboxing, yoga, karate, aerobics, and weightlifting and collects fancy kitchenware and black and white photos.
Loves organic food.
Her favorite book is "Franny and Zooey" by J.D. Salinger.
Received an Honorary Degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Gave the Class Day speech at Yale in 1993 and received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Yale in 1997.
Got the role of Annabel Bradsford in the comedy Maverick (1994) after Meg Ryan turned it down.
CBS was billed $12,000 for her hair and makeup for her appearance on "60 Minutes II" (1999), December 1999 to promote Anna and the King (1999). This total was later determined to be incorrect and inflated.
Youngest host of "Saturday Night Live" (1975) until 'Drew Barrymore' hosted in 1982.
Was replaced by Ashley Judd for the lead in Double Jeopardy (1999).
Starred as Addie Pray in the short lived TV show "Paper Moon" (1974), which was originally a movie starring 'Tatum O'Neal (I)'.
Never liked "All in the Family" (1971) because "it seemed to be doing the same thing each week."
Got the role of Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) after Michelle Pfeiffer turned it down.
Son, Kit, born in Los Angeles weighing 6 lbs 3 oz. [29 September 2001]
Father Lucius Foster left the family when Jodie's mother was a few months pregnant with her.
Born at 8:14 AM PST.
Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
Shut down production company Egg Pictures in late 2001 to spend more time with her children.
Was first choice to play the role of Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy but could not get out of her contract with Disney. George Lucas then decided to make Princess Leia older.
Replaced Nicole Kidman in the role of "Meg Altman" in Panic Room (2002) at the last minute when Kidman injured herself.
Recorded a number of songs for her film Moi, fleur bleue (1977), including "Je T'Attends Depuis La Nuit Des Temps," "When I Looked at Your Face" and "La Vie C'est Chouette."
Measurements: 34B-24-33 1/2 (Souce: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
Has been in a serious relationship with Cydney Bernard since they met in 1993 on the set of the movie Sommersby (1993).
Her Oscar-winning role as Clarice Starling from her 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs (1991) was ranked #6 in the American Film Institute's "Heroes" list in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003) (TV).
Her sister, Connie Foster, was her stand-in during the more explicit scenes in Taxi Driver (1976).
In 2001, decided not to reprise the role of Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001). The role eventually went to Julianne Moore.
Is doubled by stuntwoman Jill Stokesberry in most of her films, starting with Sommersby (1993).
She was voted the 57th "Greatest Movie Star" of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
Considers her role in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) to be a counterpart to her role in Taxi Driver (1976). In Taxi Driver (1976), she is a woman in bondage who has to be rescued. In The Silence of the Lambs (1991), she rescues the captive woman. In an interesting twist, her pimp in Taxi Driver (1976) was played by Harvey Keitel, who went on to play her future mentor, Jack Crawford, in Red Dragon (2002).
Has played both son and daughter to John Astin. In Freaky Friday (1976), they play father and daughter. In the live action "The Addams Family" (1964) television series, Astin played Gomez. In an animated series, Foster voiced Pugsley Adams.
Ranked #4 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid Stars"
Was three, when in an advertisement for suntan lotion, a puppy tugs at her underwear and reveals her white bottom.
Her production company, Egg Pictures, is named after the character played by Seth Green in The Hotel New Hampshire (1984) in which Jodie starred.
Never revealed who was the father of her two children. It is said that an anonymous donor is the biological father of Charles and Kit.
She was fluent in Italian by the age of 18.
Producer of Freaky Friday (2003) Andrew Gunn had initially hoped she would be game to play the mother (as Foster had played the daughter in the original film Freaky Friday (1976). Foster declined, in part because of concerns that the casting stunt would overshadow the movie's overall merit.
She was all set to star in the TV film The Best Little Girl in the World (1981) (TV). Unfortunately an actors' strike prevented the film from being made. By the time the production was ready to go, Jodie was already studying at Yale.
Her performance as Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988) is ranked #56 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
She was the Commencement Speaker at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in May 2006 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the school.
Ranked #4 on VH-1's 100 Greatest Kid Stars of All Time.
In an article published September 5, 2006, Foster told The New York Times that she is such a "'serious N.P.R. [National Public Radio]-head' - the sort of person who will sit in her garage listening to the car radio until a show is over" that she changed her character in The Brave One from a newspaper reporter to the host of a public radio show.
Starred in two failed TV shows based on successful movies: "Paper Moon" (1974) and "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" (1973).
Revealed during a 2005 interview on the French talk show "Le Grand Journal" that she knows the words to the French national anthem, "La Marseillaise", but does not know "The Star-Spangled Banner".
Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1989.
Her favorite actress is Meryl Streep.
Her favorite actor is Robert De Niro.
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