Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) 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 survivor 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 (1994). Other popular films include Bugsy Malone (1976), Freaky Friday (1976), Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007), and Nim's Island (2008). This book is your ultimate resource for Jodie Foster. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Jodie Foster, Napoleon and Samantha, Kansas City Bomber, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, The Partridge Family, Tom Sawyer (1973 film), One Little Indian (film), The Addams Family (1973 animated series), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Paper Moon (TV series), Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Freaky Friday (1976 film), Beach House (film), Candleshoe, Foxes (film), Carny (1980 film), The Hotel New Hampshire (film), The Blood of Others (film), My Letter to George, Five Corners (film), Siesta (film), Stealing Home, The Accused (1988 film), Catchfire, The Silence of the Lambs (film), Little Man Tate, Shadows and Fog, Sommersby, Maverick (film), Nell (film), Contact (film), Anna and the King, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Panic Room, Abby Singer (film), A Very Long Engagement, Flightplan, Inside Man, The Brave One (2007 film), Nim's Island, Four Great Women and a Manicure, The Beaver (film), Carnage (2011 film), Elysium (film), Home for the Holidays (film), Waking the Dead (film).