Happy 54th Birthday, Jodie Foster!
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luciana_mc25 — 9 years ago(November 18, 2016 03:26 PM)
Happy birthday to my favourite actress in the world and my greatest role model, Jodie Foster!
May you have a fantastic birthday surrounded by your loved ones. Thanks for being such an extraordinary human being. Love you -
TMC-4 — 9 years ago(November 19, 2016 10:44 PM)
https://lebeauleblog.com/2016/11/19/november-19-happy-birthday-jodie-foster-and-meg-ryan/
Two-time Best Actress honoree
Jodie Foster
turns 54 today. She made her screen debut in an episode of Mayberry R.F.D. which aired one day before her 6th birthday, and her feature film debut in the 1972 Disney film Napoleon and Samantha. She appeared in some additional Disney features later in the 1970s, such as Freaky Friday and Candleshoe. But she also began appearing in roles that gave hints of her success as an adult, such as Bugsy Malone, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, and especially Taxi Driver, which brought her an Oscar nomination for playing the pre-teen prostitute Iris.
Starting in 1977, Foster apparently made a deliberate decision to scale her acting career back for several years, partly because she was attending Yale at that time. In the mid-1980s, her career seemed stalled, as films like Siesta and Stealing Home were failures. But in late 1988, in a role that she once described as making one last try at getting herself established as an adult actress, she gave one of her two most famous performances:
Three years after she won Best Actress as Sarah Tobias in The Accused, Foster was honored a second time for portraying Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs. Since then her career has been a little uneven, although she did pick up another Oscar nomination for Nell, and Golden Globe nominations for that film as well as Contact, The Brave One, and Carnage. She received an Emmy nomination for directing an episode of Orange is the New Black, and her latest feature as a director, Money Monster, was out earlier this year.