Jodie Foster was born on November 19, 1962 is an American actress, director and producer. She has received two Oscars, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. For her work as a director, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

Foster began her professional career as a child model at the age of three, and made her acting debut in 1968 on the television sitcom Mayberry R.F.D. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several television series and made her film debut with Napoleon and Samantha from Disney (1972). Foster’s breakthrough came with the psychological thriller from Scorsese Taxi Driver (1976), in which she played a child prostitute; at 14, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for best supporting actress.

After attending college at Yale, Foster struggled to move into adult roles until she got rave reviews for playing a rape survivor in the legal drama The Accused (1988), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She won her second Academy Award three years later for the psychological horror The Silence of the Lambs (1991), in which she played Clarice Starling. Foster started as a director the same year with Little Man Tate, and founded his own production company, Egg Pictures, in 1992.

In April 2014, Foster married actress and photographer Alexandra Hedison. She said in 2011 that having children made her take on fewer plans: “It’s a big sacrifice to leave home. I want to make sure I feel passionate about the movies I make because it is a big sacrifice … Even if you take an average shoot of four months – you have three weeks of preparation, press functions at home and abroad, dubbing and looping, magazine covers, events and the first ones – it’s eight months out of a year. It’s long. If you make two back-to-back movies, you will never see your children. “

Foster is an atheist but said it is important to teach children about different religions, saying that “at home we ritualize them all. We make Christmas. We do Shabbat on Friday. We love Kwanzaa. Family a real religious basis, knowledge, because it is well educated. You have to know why all these wars were fought. “It also supports gun control.