Jodie Foster is an American actress, film director, and producer. Foster began acting in commercials at three years of age, and her first significant role came at age 13 in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen prostitute Iris, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Also that year, she starred in the cult film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989, for playing a rape victim in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting... in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her fourth Academy Award nomination for playing a hermit in Nell .
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| Birthdate: | November 19, 1962 |
| Birthplace: | Los Angeles, California |
| Age: | 49 |
| Height: | 5' 3" |
| Education: | Yale University, Lycée Français de Los Angeles |
| Religion: | Atheism |
| Also known as: | Alicia Christian Foster, Jody Foster, jodie_foster |