Jodie Foster:
Is an American actress, director and producer
Birth Name  Alicia Christian Foster

Born: November 19, 1962 (age 53), Los Angeles, California, United States 

 Foster received an Oscar nomination at age 12 for her role as a child prostitute in Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver (1976), and went on to win a Golden Globe (best actress) and Academy Award for The Accused (1988). She then starred in the popular film The Silence of the Lambs (1991). In recent years, Foster has worked as a successful film director and producer, in addition to acting

Early Carrer and Education:

Despite never having taken an acting class, she dove headlong into show business in 1968 with her first television show, Mayberry R.F.D, and she would continue on to a busy career as a child actress.
Foster's first foray onto the big screen came with roles in the Disney movies Napoleon and Samantha (1972) and One Little Indian (1973). All the while, Foster was studying at the private prep school Lycée Français de Los Angeles, juggling a challenging course load and becoming fluent in French.  In search of anonymity and an ordinary collegiate experience, she enrolled in Yale University after graduating high school

controversial breakout film role came, Taxi Driver (1976), an iconic and dark Martin Scorsese picture set in the gritty underbelly of 1970s-era New York, and saw Foster playing a child prostitute who becomes the obsession of the title character, played by Robert De Niro. Taxi Driver garnered Foster an Oscar nomination, establishing her as a teenage star and leading to roles in popular films like Freaky Friday (1976) and Foxes (1980), 

She stayed very busy as a child actress, working on television programs such as The Doris Day Show (1968), Adam-12 (1968), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969), La familia Partridge (1970), Bonanza (1959), and La ley del revólver (1955). In movies, her roles included playing Raquel Welch's daughter in Kansas City Bomber (1972) and a delinquent tomboy in Alicia ya no vive aquí (1974).


Acclaimed Actress and Director:

Jodie graduated from Yale in 1985 with a degree in literature. She resumed her acting career and sought a breakthrough role that would return her to stardom After appearing in a few obscure movies with limited release, Jodie landed an audition for Acusados (1988), The Accused. For this performance she won both an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress, establishing her as one of Hollywood's most esteemed serious actresses.

Her next film,  Camino de retorno (1990), went straight to video, and she had to campaign hard to get her next good role. In 1991, she starred as Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee assisting in a hunt for a serial killer in El silencio de los inocentes (1991),  The Silence of the Lambs with Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, and Brooke Smith. The film was a blockbuster hit, winning Jodie her second Academy Award for Best Actress and establishing her as an international movie star at the age of 28. 

Foster turned to directing, her occasional directorial projects, Foster continued to act in hit movies such as Maverick (1994), Contact, scence fiction drama Contacto (1997) and the box office smash Panic Room (2002). Her directorial  debut with Mentes que brillan (1991), which was followed by Feriados en familia (1995). She first played a sexy con artist in the successful western comedy Maverick (1994) with Mel Gibson and James Garner. Then, she played title role in Una mujer llamada Nell (1994), co-starring Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson.  She starred in the non-musical remake of El rey y yo (1956) entitled Anna y el rey ,Anna and the King (1999). Three years after that she headlined the thriller La habitación del pánico, Panic Room  (2002), which co-starred Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, and Jared Leto.

 She then appeared in two low-profile projects: the independent film Chicos de vidas peligrosas, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002), she played a nun, Sister Assumpta, while also producing the film. After taking a small part in a French film.  the foreign film Amor eterno and The Very Long Engagement  (2004), She returned to making Hollywood mainstream films, first with Plan de vuelo, Flightplan in 2005. The following year she starred in another hit, the bank heist thriller El plan perfecto, Inside Man (2006) with Denzel Washington and Clive Owen.  Her next film was the revenge thriller The Brave One (2007), which once again opened at #1 at the box office and earned her another Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Jodie returned to the comedy genre in La isla de Nim, Nim's Island (2008) with Gerard Butler and Abigail Breslin


Later Career

Very selective about her projects in recent years. She reunited with her Maverick colleague Mel Gibson in the offbeat drama The Beaver (2011 , Foster served as its director and as Gibson's co-star. She also worked with Roman Polanski on his dramatic comedy Carnage (2011) around this time. In recent years, Foster has continued to pursue filmmaking. She stars opposite Matt Damon in the sci-fi film Elysium (2013). Around the same time, she began working on a new directing project: Money Monster (2013).


Personal Life

In April 2014, Foster married her girlfriend Alexandra Hedison, an American photographer and actress, in a private weekend ceremony. The couple began dating in October 2013. Hedison previously dated Ellen DeGeneres for three years before splitting in 2004.