In all, she has appeared in more than 40 films, also including David Fincher's Panic Room Andy Tennant's Anna and the King Robert Zemeckis' Contact Maverick, with Mel Gibson and James Garner Sommersby, opposite Richard Gere Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog Stealing Home Siesta Five Corners, for which she won an Independent Spirit Award Claude Chabrol's The Blood of Others Tony Richardson's The Hotel New Hampshire and Adrian Lyne's Foxes. She most recently starred in Spike Lee's Inside Man and the thriller Flightplan and had a cameo appearance in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's French-language film A Very Long Engagement. Foster earned her latest Oscar nomination and won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her work in the title role of 1994's Nell, which also marked her first film as a producer.įoster is currently filming Nim's Island, in which she stars with Abigail Breslin and Gerard Butler. That year, she also became the only American actress to win two BAFTA Awards in the same year, earning Best Supporting Actress and Best Newcomer honors for her performances in both Taxi Driver and Bugsy Malone.

Foster's portrayal of FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling in that film also brought her Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards, as well as the New York and Chicago Film Critics Awards for Best Actress.įoster received her first Oscar nomination at the age of 14 for her performance in Martin Scorsese's 1976 film Taxi Driver, also winning awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics. She won her second Academy Award for her work in the 1991 Oscar-winning Best Picture The Silence of the Lambs. Jodie Foster a two-time Academy Award winner, won her first Oscar for her poignant performance as a rape survivor in the 1988 drama The Accused, for which she also won Golden Globe and National Board of Review Awards.

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