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Jodie Foster
Foster at the 2011 César Awards ceremony
Born
Alicia Christian Foster

(1962-11-19) November 19, 1962 (age 61)
Alma materYale University
Occupations
  • Actress
  • director
  • producer
Years active1965–present
Spouse
(m. 2014)
PartnerCydney Bernard (1993–2008)
Children2
AwardsFull list

Alicia "Jodie" Christian Foster (born November 19, 1962),[1] is an American actress, director, and producer who has worked in films and on television. She has often been cited as one of the best actresses of her generation.[2][3]

Foster began her career aged three years old as a child model in 1965, and two years later moved to acting in television series with an appearance in the sitcom Mayberry R.F.D.. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several primetime television series and starred in children's films. Foster's breakthrough came in Martin Scorsese's controversial Taxi Driver (1976), in which she played a teenage prostitute; the role garnered her a nomination for an Academy Award. Her other critically acclaimed roles as a teenager were in the musical Bugsy Malone (1976) and the thriller The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), and she became a popular teen idol by starring in Disney's Freaky Friday (1976) and Candleshoe (1977).

After attending college at Yale, Foster struggled to transition to adult roles until winning widespread critical acclaim for her portrayal of a rape survivor in The Accused (1988), for which she won several awards, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. She won her second Academy Award two years later, when she starred in the sleeper hit The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a FBI trainee investigating a serial murder case. Foster made her debut as a film director the same year with the moderately successful Little Man Tate (1991), and founded her own production company, Egg Pictures, in 1992. The company's first production was Nell (1994), in which she also played the title role, gaining another nomination for an Academy Award. Her other films in the 1990s included period drama Sommersby, Western comedy Maverick (1994), science fiction film Contact (1997), and period drama Anna and the King (1999). Her second film direction, Home for the Holidays (1995), was not well-received critically or commercially.

After career setbacks in the early 2000s, which included the cancellation of a film project and the closing down of her production company, Foster starred in four thrillers, Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), and The Brave One (2007). She has focused on directing in the 2010s, releasing The Beaver in 2011 and directing episodes for Netflix television series Orange is the New Black and House of Cards. She also starred in the box office hit Elysium (2013). In addition to her two Academy Awards, Foster has won three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and the Cecil B DeMille Award.

Background and education

Foster was born in Los Angeles on 19 November 1962 as the youngest child of Evelyn Ella "Brandy" (née Almond) and Lucius Fisher Foster III. Her father came from a wealthy Chicago family, whose forebears included John Alden, who had arrived in North America on the Mayflower in 1620.[4][5] He was Yale graduate and a decorated U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, and after service made his career as a real estate broker.[4] He had already been married once and had three sons from the union before marrying Brandy in Las Vegas in 1953.[5] Brandy Foster was of German heritage and grew up in Rockford, Illinois.[6] Before Foster's birth, she and Lucius had three other children: daughters Lucinda "Cindy" Foster (b. 1954) and Constance "Connie" Foster (b. 1955) and son Lucius Fisher "Buddy" Foster (b. 1957).[5] Their marriage ended before Foster was born, and she never established a relationship with her father.[4][7][8] Following the divorce, Brandy raised the children with her partner in Los Angeles.[9] She worked in public relations for the film producer Arthur P. Jacobs, until focusing on managing the acting careers of Buddy and Jodie.[4][5][7] Although Foster was officially named Alicia, her siblings began calling her "Jodie", and the name stuck.[10]

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The main campus of the Lycée Français de Los Angeles, which Foster attended.

Foster was a gifted child, and learned to read at the age of three.[4][7] She attended a French-language prep school, the Lycée Français de Los Angeles.[7] Her fluency in French has enabled her to act in French films, and she also dubs herself in French-language versions of most of her English-language films.[4][11][12] She also understands Italian although does not speak it,[13] as well as a little Spanish[14] and German.[15] At her graduation in 1980, she delivered the valedictorian address for the school's French division.[7] Although already a successful actor by this time, Foster then attended Yale University in order to get away from the familiar environment of California and the film industry for a change.[8][16] She majored in literature, writing her thesis on Toni Morrison, and graduated with a magna cum laude in 1985.[4][17][18] She returned to Yale in 1993 to address the graduating class, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the university in 1997.[19][20]

Career

Early work (1965–1975)

Foster's career began with an appearance as the Coppertone girl in a television advertisement in 1965, when she was only three years old.[7] Her mother had intended only for her older brother Buddy, who had already achieved some success as a child actor, to try out for the part.[5][7] She had however taken Jodie with them to the casting call, where she was spotted by the casting agents.[7] The Coppertone television spot led to more advertisement work, and in 1968 to a minor appearance in an episode of the sitcom Mayberry R.F.D., in which her brother starred.[7]

Foster with Christopher Connelly in a publicity photo for Paper Moon (1974), in which she had one of the first starring roles of her career

Under the management of their mother, Jodie and Buddy Foster became the main breadwinners of the family in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[5] During this time, Foster appeared in over twenty prime time television series. Most of her television appearances were minor, but she had recurring roles in The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969–1971) and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1973). She also voiced characters in the animation series The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (1972) and The Addams Family (1973). Foster's first film role was in the television film Menace on the Mountain (1970), which was followed two years later by her feature film debut in the adventure film Napoleon and Samantha (1972), opposite Michael Douglas and Johnny Whitaker. In the film she played Samantha, who befriends a young boy named Napoleon (Whitaker) and his pet lion. During the filming, she was accidentally grabbed by the lion, which left her with permanent scars on her back.[21] The same year she also had a small role in the drama film Kansas City Bomber, starring Raquel Welch, and in 1973 appeared in two children's films, the Western One Little Indian and the Mark Twain adaptation Tom Sawyer.

In 1974, Foster landed a starring role in ABC's television series Paper Moon, based on the eponymous hit film and co-starring Christopher Connelly. It was however a flop and was cancelled after only one season.[5][22] The same year she also appeared was a supporting role as a "Ripple-drinking street kid" in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, the first in what would be a series of "edgier" roles in independent films in the following years.[7] Foster later commented on her career as a child actress, stating that "I think my mom and I were very lucky. We got through it OK and she was very careful to not exploit the situation."[10]

Taxi Driver and teenage stardom (1976–1979)

Foster's performance as teenage prostitute Iris in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) is considered her breakthrough role.[23] The film was controversial due to its violent content, and the Los Angeles Welfare Board initially opposed thirteen-year-old Foster's appearing in it.[24][25] The board finally relented after intervention by California governor Pat Brown and an assessment of Foster by a UCLA psychiatrist, who concluded that she would not be damaged by the film.[25] She was required to have a social worker accompany her on set and her older sister Connie acted as her stand-in in sexually suggestive scenes.[25][26] Foster later commented on the controversy saying that she hated "the idea that everybody thinks if a kid's going to be an actress it means that she has to play Shirley Temple or someone's little sister."[27] During the filming, she developed a close bond with co-star Robert DeNiro, who saw "serious potential" in her and dedicated time outside of filming on rehearsing scenes with her.[28] She later described Taxi Driver as a life-changing experience and stated that it was "the first time anyone asked me to create a character that wasn't myself. It was the first time I realized that acting wasn't this hobby you just sort of did, but that there was actually some craft."[7] Released in February, it won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May; Foster also impressed journalists when she acted as French translator at the film's press conference.[24][29] Taxi Driver was a critical and commercial success, and earned Foster a supporting actress Academy Award nomination, as well as two BAFTAs, a David di Donatello and a National Society of Film Critics award.[7][24] The film is considered one of the best films ever made by both the American Film Institute[24] and Sight & Sound,[30] and has been preserved in the National Film Registry.[31]

"I wasn't a science prodigy or a math prodigy ... I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships. And I had instincts about adult stories that I shouldn't have known anything about. That's very different to all those really cool prodigies that can play piano. But I wouldn't change it for anything. I found, at a very young age, even though it's not my personality to be an actor, a way of expressing myself that allowed me to not be so lonely."

–Foster on her reputation as a prodigy[10]

Foster also acted in another film nominated for the Palme d'Or in 1976, Bugsy Malone.[32] The British musical parodied films about Prohibition Era gangsters by having all roles played by children; Foster appeared in a major supporting role as Tallulah, star of a speakeasy show.[33] Its director Alan Parker was impressed by her and stated that "she takes such an intelligent interest in the way the film is being made that if I had been run over by a bus I think she was probably the only person on the set able to take over as director."[34] Foster gained several positive notices for her performance: according to Roger Ebert, "at thirteen she was already getting the roles that grown-up actresses complained weren't being written for women anymore",[35] Variety described her as "outstanding",[36] and Vincent Canby of the New York Times called her "the star of the show".[37] Foster's two BAFTAs were awarded jointly for her performances in Taxi Driver and Bugsy Malone.[38] Her third film release in spring 1976 was the independent drama Echoes of a Summer, which had been filmed two years previously.[39] New York Times named Foster's starring role as a terminally ill girl the film's "main strength"[39] and Gene Siskel stated that she "is not a good child actress; she's just a good actress", although both reviewers otherwise panned the film.[40]

Foster's fourth film of 1976 was low-budget Canadian-French The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, in which she starred opposite Martin Sheen.[41] The film combined aspects from thriller and horror genres, and showed Foster as a mysterious young girl living on her own in a small town; the performance earned her a Saturn Award.[42] On November 27, she hosted Saturday Night Live, becoming the youngest person to do so until 1982.[21] Her final film of the year was Freaky Friday, a Disney comedy commenting on gender roles, which was "her first true star vehicle".[43] The film starred Foster as a tomboy teen who accidentally changes bodies with her mother; she later stated that her character's desire to become an adult was matched by her own feelings at the time, and that the film marked a "transitional period" for her when she began to grow out of child roles.[44] It received mainly positive reviews,[45] and was a box office success.[46] Foster received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance.[47]

After her breakthrough year, Foster spent nine months living in France, during which she starred in the French film fr [Moi, fleur bleue] (1977) and recorded several songs for its soundtrack.[16][48] The same year, she also appeared in the Italian comedy Il Casotto (1977).[49] Her only American film of the year was the Disney heist film Candleshoe (1977), which was filmed in England and co-starred veteran actors David Niven and Helen Hayes.[50]

Transition to adult roles (1980–1989)

Foster at the Governor's Ball after winning an Academy Award for The Accused (1988). Her performance as a rape survivor marked her breakthrough into adult roles.

After Candleshoe, Foster did not appear in any new releases until 1980, the year she turned eighteen. She gained positive notices for her performances in Adrian Lyne's debut feature film Foxes (1980), which focuses on the lives of Los Angeles teenagers, and Carny (1980), in which she plays a waitress who runs away from her former life by joining a touring carnival.[51] Aware that child stars are often unable to successfully continue their careers into adulthood, Foster became a full-time student at Yale in fall 1980, and her acting career slowed down in the following five years.[52][53] She later stated that going to college was "a wonderful time of self-discovery", and changed her thoughts about acting, which she had previously thought was an unintelligent profession, but now realised that "what I really wanted to do was to act and there was nothing stupid about it."[53][54] She continued making films on her summer vacations,[16] appearing in O'Hara's Wife (1982), television film Svengali (1983), John Irving adaptation The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), French film The Blood of Others (1984), and period drama Mesmerized (1986), which she also co-produced,[55] during her college years. None of them were however successful, and after graduating in 1985, Foster struggled to find work.[56] The neo-noir Siesta (1987), in which she appeared in a supporting role, was a failure.[57] Five Corners (1987) was a moderate critical success and earned Foster an Independent Spirit Award for her performance as a woman whose sexual assaulter returns to stalk her.[58][59] In 1988, Foster made her debut as a director with the episode "Do Not Open This Box" for the horror anthology series Tales from the Darkside,[60] and in August appeared in the romantic drama Stealing Home (1988) opposite Mark Harmon. It was a flop,[61] with film critic Roger Ebert even "wondering if any movie could possibly be that bad".[62]

Foster's breakthrough into adult roles came with her performance as a rape survivor in The Accused, a drama based on a real criminal case, which was released in October 1988.[63] The film focuses on the aftermath of a gang rape and its survivor's fight for justice on the face of victim blaming. Before making the film, Foster was having doubts about whether to continue her career and planned on starting graduate studies, but decided to give acting "one last try" in The Accused.[53] She had to audition twice for the role and was cast only after several more established actors had turned it down, as the film's producers were wary of her due to her previous failures and because she was still remembered as a "chubby teenager".[64][53] Due to the heavy subject matter, the filming was a difficult experience for all cast and crew involved, especially the shooting of the rape scene, which took five days to complete.[7] Foster was initially unhappy with her performance, and feared that it would end her career.[65] Her fears turned out to be unfounded: although The Accused received overall mixed reviews upon its release, Foster's performance was positively received by the critics[66] and earned her Academy, Golden Globe and National Board of Review awards, as well as a nomination for a BAFTA Award.

1990–1994

Foster at the Academy Awards in 1990

Foster's first film release after the success of The Accused was the thriller The Silence of the Lambs (1991). She played FBI trainee Clarice Starling, who is sent to interview incarcerated serial killer Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in order to solve another serial murder case; Foster later named the role one of her favorites.[65] She had read the novel it was based on after its publication in 1988 and had attempted to purchase its film rights,[67] as it featured "a real female heroine" and its plot was not "about steroids and brawn, [but] about using your mind and using your insufficiencies to combat the villain."[7] Despite her enthusiasm, director Jonathan Demme did not initially want to cast her, but the producers overruled him.[68] Demme's view of Foster changed during the production, and he later credited her for helping him define the character.[68][69] The film was released in February 1991, and became one of the biggest hits of the year, grossing nearly $273 million.[70][71] Its critical reception was however mixed. Foster received largely favorable reviews[65] and won Academy, Golden Globe, and BAFTA awards for her portrayal of Starling; Silence won five Academy Awards overall,[72] becoming one of the few films to win in all main categories. In contrast, some reviewers criticized the film as misogynist for its focus on brutal murders of women, and blamed it for homophobia due to its main villain, serial killer "Buffalo Bill".[73] Much of the criticism was directed towards Foster, whom the critics alleged was herself a lesbian.[73] Despite the controversy, the film is considered a modern classic: Starling and Lecter are included on the American Film Institute's top ten of the greatest film heroes and villains in American film history, and the film is preserved in the National Film Registry.[31] Later in 1991, Foster also starred in the unsuccessful low-budget thriller Catchfire, which had been filmed before Silence, but was released after it in an attempt to profit from its success.[74]

In October 1991, Foster released her first feature film as a director, Little Man Tate, a drama about a working-class single mother who struggles to deal with her genius son.[75] The main roles were played by Foster and previously unknown actor Adam Hann-Byrd. She had found the script from the "slush pile" at Orion Pictures,[76] and explained that for her debut film she "wanted a piece that was not autobiographical, but that had to do with the 10 philosophies I've accumulated in the past 25 years. Every single one of them, if they weren't in the script from the beginning, they're there now."[7] Although she received a large amount of positive publicity for her choice to become a director, many reviewers felt that the film itself did not live up to the high expectations, and regarded it as merely "competent" and "less adventurous than many films in which [she] had starred".[77] Regardless, it was a moderate box office success.[78] Foster's final film appearance of the year came in a small role as a prostitute in Shadows and Fog (1991), directed by Woody Allen, with whom she had wanted to collaborate since the 1970s.[16]

Foster had no new film releases in 1992, but instead founded her own production company, Egg Pictures, a subsidiary of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment.[79] According to the terms of her contract, she was to make up to six films with the budget of $10–25 million each in the following three years.[80] Foster's following film roles were more "conventionally feminine" and marked a departure for her by featuring her in a romantic period film and a light comedy.[81] The romantic drama was Sommersby (1993), in which she starred opposite Richard Gere as a woman who begins to suspect that her husband who returns home from the Civil War is in fact an impostor. She then appeared as a con artist in the Western comedy Maverick (1994), opposite Mel Gibson and James Garner. Both films were box office hits, earning over $140 and $183 million respectively.[82][83] Foster's first production for Egg Pictures, Nell, in which she starred in the title role as a woman who grew up isolated from the rest of society, was released in December 1994. In the role, she spoke an invented language combining the speech patterns of toddlers and stroke victims, as the character was not supposed to have ever had contact with other humans than her disabled mother.[84] Although Foster chose Michael Apted to direct the film, it was seen as mainly her project.[85] It was based on Mark Handley's play Idioglossia, which interested her for its theme of "otherness", and because she "loved this idea of a woman who defies categorization, a creature who is labeled and categorized by people based on their own problems and their own prejudices and what they bring to the table."[84][86] It was a moderate commercial success,[87] but a critical disappointment.[88] Regardless of the negative reviews, Foster received a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance and was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.

1995–1999

Foster released her second film as director, Home for the Holidays, in November 1995. Starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr., it was a black comedy[89] "set around a nightmarish Thanksgiving".[10] It was a critical and box office failure.[90] The following year, she received two honorary awards: the Crystal Award, awarded annually for women in the entertainment industry,[91] and the Berlinale Camera at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.[92] After Nell in 1994, Foster did not act in any new projects until 1997, aside from providing her voice in cameo appearances in episodes for Frasier in 1996 and The X-Files in early 1997. She was in talks to star in David Fincher's thriller The Game, but was dropped from the film by its production company, PolyGram, after disagreements over her role.[93] Foster sued the company, saying that she had an oral agreement with them to star in the film and had as a result taken "herself off the market" and lost out on other film projects.[94] The case was later settled out of court.[95] Foster finally made her return to the big screen in Contact (1997), a science fiction film based on a novel by Carl Sagan and directed by Robert Zemeckis. She starred as a scientist searching for extraterrestrial life in the SETI project. Due to the special effects, many of the scenes were filmed with a bluescreen; this was Foster's first experience with the technology. She commented, "Blue walls, blue roof. It was just blue, blue, blue. And I was rotated on a lazy Susan with the camera moving on a computerized arm. It was really tough."[96] The film was a commercial success[97] and earned Foster a Saturn Award and a nomination for a Golden Globe. She also had an asteroid, 17744 Jodiefoster, named in her honor in 1998.[98]

Foster's next project was producing Jane Anderson's television film The Baby Dance (1998) for Showtime.[99][100] Its story deals with a wealthy California couple who struggle with infertility and decide to adopt from a poor family in Louisiana.[99] On her decision to produce for television, Foster stated that it was easier to take financial risks in that medium than in feature films.[99] In 1998, she also moved her production company from PolyGram to Paramount Pictures.[80] Foster's last film in the 1990s was the period drama Anna and the King (1999), in which she starred opposite Chow Yun-Fat. It was based on a fictionalized biography of British teacher Anna Leonowens, who taught the children of King Mongkut of Siam, and whose story had become well known as the musical The King and I. Foster was paid $15 million to portray Leonowens, making her one of the highest-paid female actors in Hollywood.[101] The film was subject to controversy when the Thai government questioned its historical authenticity and called it insulting to the royal family; 20th Century Fox was not allowed to shoot it in Thailand, and the film was also banned from being distributed there.[102] It was a moderate commercial success,[103] but received mixed to negative reviews.[104][105] Roger Ebert panned the film, stating that the role required Foster "to play beneath [her] intelligence"[106] and New York Times called it a "misstep" for her and accused her of only being "interested ... in sanctifying herself as an old-fashioned heroine than in taking on dramatically risky roles".[107]

Career setbacks and thrillers (2000–2009)

Foster's first project of the new decade was Keith Gordon's film Waking the Dead (2000), which she produced.[108] She refused the offer to reprise her role as Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001), with the part going instead to Julianne Moore, and concentrated on her new directorial project, Flora Plum.[109] It was to focus on a 1930s traveling circus and star Claire Danes and Russell Crowe, but had to be shelved indefinitely after Crowe injured himself on set and could not complete filming on schedule; Foster would attempt to revive the project several times in the following years.[10][110][111] Controversially, she also expressed interest in directing and starring in a biopic of Nazi film director Leni Riefenstahl, but Riefenstahl did not like the idea.[112][113] In addition to these setbacks, Foster shut down Egg Pictures in 2001, stating that producing was "just a really thankless, bad job".[10][80] The company's last production, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2002. It received good reviews,[114] but did not become a commercial success during its limited release in the summer.[115]

At the German premiere of The Brave One in 2007

After the cancellation of Flora Plum, Foster took on the main role in David Fincher's thriller Panic Room after its intended star, Nicole Kidman, had to drop out due to an injury on set.[116] Before filming resumed, Foster was given only a week to prepare for the role of a wealthy woman who moves with her daughter to a house fitted with a panic room, which they have to use on their first night due to a home invasion.[117] It opened in North America in March 2002 and grossed over $30 million on its opening weekend, thus becoming the most successful film opening of Foster's career as of 2015.[118][119] In addition to being a box office success, the film also received largely positive reviews.[120][121]

After minor appearances in the dark comedy Abby Singer (2003) and the French period drama A Very Long Engagement (2004), Foster starred in three more thrillers. The first was Flightplan (2005), in which she played a woman whose daughter vanishes during an overnight flight. It became a global box office hit,[122] but received mainly negative reviews.[123][124] It was followed by Spike Lee's critically acclaimed and commercially successful Inside Man (2006), about a bank heist on Wall Street, which co-starred Denzel Washington and Clive Owen.[125][126][127] In the third thriller, The Brave One (2007), Foster played a New Yorker who becomes a vigilante after being injured in a random street attack that also kills her fiancé and dog, a role which prompted comparisons to Taxi Driver.[128] It was not a success,[129][130][131] but earned Foster her sixth Golden Globe nomination. Her last film role of the decade was in the children's adventure film Nim's Island (2008), in which she portrayed an agoraphobic writer opposite Gerard Butler and Abigail Breslin. It was the first comedy that she had starred in since Maverick (1994), and was a box office success but a critical failure.[132][133] In 2009, she provided the voice for Maggie in a tetralogy episode of The Simpsons titled "Four Great Women and a Manicure".[134]

Focus on directing (2010–present)

Foster with co-star Mel Gibson at the premiere of The Beaver at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. The film was Foster's third feature film as a director

In the 2010s, Foster has focused on directing and taken fewer acting roles.[135] In February 2011, she hosted the 36th César Awards in France, and the following month released her third feature film direction, The Beaver (2011), which focused on a depressed man who develops an alternative personality based on a beaver hand puppet.[136] It starred Maverick co-star Mel Gibson and featured herself, Anton Yelchin and Jennifer Lawrence in supporting roles as his family.[137] Foster called its production "probably the biggest struggle of my professional career", partly due to the film's heavy subject matter but also due to the controversy that developed around Gibson as he was accused of domestic violence and making anti-semitic, racist, and sexist statements.[135][138] The film received mixed reviews,[139][140] and flopped at the box office, largely due to the controversy surrounding its star.[141][142][143] In 2011, Foster also appeared as part of an ensemble cast with John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz in Roman Polanski's comedy Carnage, focusing on middle class parents whose meeting to settle an incident between their sons descends into chaos. It premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September 2011 to mainly positive reviews and earned Foster a Golden Globe nomination.[144]

In January 2013, Foster received the honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 70th Golden Globe Awards.[145] Her next film role was playing Secretary of Defense Delacourt opposite Matt Damon in the dystopian film Elysium (2013), which was a box office success.[146] She also returned to television directing for the first time since the 1980s, directing the episodes "Lesbian Request Denied" (2013) and "Thirsty Bird" (2014) for Orange Is the New Black, and the episode "Chapter 22" (2014) for House of Cards.[147] "Lesbian Request Denied" brought her a Primetime Emmy Award, and the two 2014 episodes earned her two nominations for a Directors Guild of America Award.[148][149] In 2014, she also narrated the episode "Women in Space" for Makers: Women Who Make America, a PBS documentary series about women's struggle for equal rights in the United States. The following year, Foster received the Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award at the Athena Film Festival,[150] and directed her next film project, Money Monster, which stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts and is scheduled for release in August 2016.[151]

Personal life

Relationships and family

Foster has two sons: Charles "Charlie" Foster (born 1998) and Christopher "Kit" Foster (born 2001).[152][153]

In 2013, Foster acknowledged coming out in a speech at the 70th Golden Globe Awards,[154][155][156][157] and many news outlets afterwards described her as lesbian or gay,[158] although some sources noted that she did not use the words gay or lesbian in her speech.[159] Between 1993 and 2008, she was in a relationship with film producer Cydney Bernard.[160] In April 2014, Foster married actress and photographer Alexandra Hedison.[161][162]

Target of fan obsession

John Hinckley, Jr. became obsessed with Foster after watching Taxi Driver a number of times,[163][164] and stalked her while she attended Yale, sending her love letters to her campus mail box and even talking to her on the phone. On March 30, 1981, he attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan (shooting and wounding Reagan and three others) and claimed his motive was to impress Foster, then a Yale freshman. The media stormed the Yale campus in April "like a cavalry invasion," and followed Foster relentlessly.[165][166] Another man, Edward Richardson, reportedly followed Foster around Yale with the intent to shoot her, but later changed his mind.[167]

Foster's only public reactions to the incident up to that time were a press conference afterwards and an article titled "Why Me?" that she wrote for Esquire in December 1982. In that article she wrote that returning to work on the film Svengali with Peter O'Toole "made me fall in love with acting again"[168] after the assassination attempt had shaken her confidence. The incident caused Foster intense discomfort and reporters have been warned in advance not to bring up the subject in front of her; she has been known to walk out of interviews at the mention of Hinckley's name.[167] In 1991, Foster canceled an interview with NBC's Today Show when she discovered Hinckley would be mentioned in the introduction.[167] In 1999, she discussed the experience with Charlie Rose of 60 Minutes II, explaining that she does not "like to dwell on it too much [...] I never wanted to be the actress who was remembered for that event. Because it didn't have anything to do with me. I was kind of a hapless bystander. But... what a scarring, strange moment in history for me, to be 17 years old, 18 years old, and to be caught up in a drama like that."[8] She also stated that the incident had a major impact on the career choices she later made.[8]

Religious views

Foster is an atheist.[169][170] She has stated she has "great respect for all religions" and spends "a lot of time studying divine texts, whether it's Eastern religion or Western religion."[171][172] She and her children celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah.[173]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by Best Actress in a Leading Role
1988
Succeeded by
Preceded by Best Actress in a Leading Role
1991
Succeeded by

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