Alicia Christian “Jodie” Foster is an American actress and director. She has received two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Foster has three children: Lucinda, Constance, and Lucinda’s son Lucius Fisher “Buddy” Foster IV.
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Alicia Christian “Jodie” Foster is an American actress and director. She has received two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Foster began her professional career as a child model when she was three years old. She made her acting debut in 1968 in the television sitcom Mayberry R. F. D. Foster’s breakthrough came with Scorsese’s psychological thriller Taxi Driver, in which she played a child prostitute. She won her second Academy Award three years later for the psychological horror The Silence of the Lambs. Foster experienced career setbacks in the early 2000s, including the cancellation of a film project and the closing down of her production company. She then starred in four commercially successful thrillers: Panic Room, Flightplan, Inside Man, and The Brave One. In the 2010s, she has focused on directing the films The Beaver and Money Monster, as well as episodes for Netflix television series Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, and Black Mirror. She also starred in the films Carnage, Elysium, and Hotel Artemis. She is the youngest child of Evelyn Ella and Lucius Fisher Foster III. Her father came from a wealthy Chicago family whose forebears included John Alden, who arrived in North America on the Mayflower in 1620. Her mother is of German heritage and grew up in Rockford, Illinois. Foster also has Irish roots, with ancestry that can be traced back to County Cork.
She attended a French-language prep school, the Lycée Français de Los Angeles. 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. She delivered the valedictory address for her high school’s Fine Arts division in 1980. She returned to Yale University in 1985, where she majored in literature, writing her thesis on Toni Morrison. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 1997, and graduated in 1993 to address the Fine Arts class in Fine Arts. Foster has three children: Lucinda, Constance, and Lucinda’s son Lucius Fisher “Buddy” Foster IV. She worked as a publicist for film producer Arthur P. Jacobs, until focusing on managing the acting careers of Buddy and Jodie. She had three sons from an earlier marriage before marrying Brandy in Las Vegas in 1953. After the divorce, Brandy raised the children with her partner in Los Angeles, She worked on film projects and managed Foster and Buddy’s acting careers. Foster and Brandy have three other children: daughters Lucinda and Constance \”Connie\” Foster, and son Lucinda “Cindy” Foster “Foster IV. Their marriage ended before Foster was born, and they never established a relationship with her father. She never established an relationship with Foster’s father, who was a decorated U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel.
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