jodie-foster-biography

Name : Jodie Foster

Birth Date : November 19, 1962

Birth Place : Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name : Alicia Christian Foster

Height : 5′4

Nationality : American

Occupation : actress, producer, director

Alicia Christian Jodie Foster was born in Los Angeles, Californiais. Foster is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, Producer and director. She first appeared at three years old in 1976 as an underage prostitute in Taxi Driver and received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting ActressShe.She has also won two Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild Award, three BAFTA awards.

At age fourteen, Foster was nominated for the Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress as an underage prostitute in Martin Scorsese’s film Taxi Driver.

John Hinckley Jr., became obsessed with her after watching Taxi Driver.On March 30, 1981, he attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan and claimed his motive was to impress Foster.

In 1997, she starred alongside Matthew McConaughey in the sci-fi movie Contact. the movie was based on the novel by scientist Carl Sagan.

In 2006, she appeared in a thriller directed by Spike Lee and co-starring Denzel Washington and Clive Owen named ‘Inside Man’.It was #1 at the U.S. box office, and went on to be one of the commercial hits of the year.

Foster starred in film directed by Neil Jordan and co-starred Terrence Howard ‘The Brave One’ this year(2008), it is an urban thriller which is No. 1 at the U.S. box office.

Foster is an atheist and does not follow any “traditional religion,”.