Jodie Foster (real name Alicia Christian Foster) was born a few months after her parents separated, the fourth child of both. At the beginning of 1963, Foster's mother Brandy and her children moved to her girlfriend in the San Fernando Valley northwest of Los Angeles, at which the major contribution was made to the family upkeep. The relationship lasted until 1976.

Brandy Foster has worked in the film industry. As a single mother, she agreed to for financial reasons, promotional appearances of her son. One of the auditions, the three-time Jodie came along, while she was engaged in an advertisement for Coppertone suntan lotion.

Career

Later, Jodie Foster appeared on television in formats such as Sesame Street, Bonanza, Kung Fu, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Love Story, The Addams Family and Paper Moon. Also as already established movie star, she had TV appearances: 1996 and 1997 had on the TV series Frasier and The X-Files, each in one episode as a caller and a voice in a pure Halluzinationssequenz speaking roles without being seen to.

Her first film role she played in the age of ten flight into the wilderness (Napoleon and Samantha, 1972), a Disney movie. During the 1970s she was filming this studio then a number of other films. Her first major success she had when she was twelve in the comedy Bugsy Malone. As an underage prostitute in Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver (1976), the then 13-year-old became world famous. In the same year she starred in The girl at the end of the road an independently living, highly talented young people, a role that matches their image today. The offer, the role of Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars (Star Wars, page 1977), she had to because of contractual obligations to the Disney Corporation refuse.

In the years 1980 to 1985 Foster studied at the Yale University literature and graduated with Magna Cum Laude from. Their bachelor's thesis, she wrote about the African-American author Toni Morrison. 1997 she was awarded the University an honorary doctorate.

During the study time Foster has written several journal articles and interviewed others Nastassja Kinski. The two women became friends and have been looking for a way to collaborate on a joint film project. The opportunity came in the film Hotel New Hampshire from the year 1984, which was based on a novel by John Irving. In 1988 she took over Indicted originally for Kelly McGillis role envisaged a raped woman, and received her first Oscar.

In 1991 she made her debut in Little Man Tate as a director. In the same year she played in place of Michelle Pfeiffer an FBI agent in The Silence of the Lambs. Their theatrical collaboration with Anthony Hopkins brought in two actors an Oscar. In 2001, she disbanded her production company Egg Pictures, for family reasons. Among the films produced in addition to their own works include Lost Heaven, Waking the Dead and baby blues.

Foster is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. In 2007 she finished second in a ranking of the Hollywood Reporter with fees receivable from an estimated 10 to 12 million dollars per film a ninth place. In July 2008 she took in a Forbes ranking, with salaries amounting to 23 million U.S. dollars (between June 2007 and June 2008) behind Cameron Diaz, Keira Knightley, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow into sixth place.

It has long been planning a film about the life and work of the controversial film director Leni Riefenstahl.

In December 2007 Jodie Foster first publicly confessed to her longtime girlfriend Cydney Bernard. In May 2008 it was reported about an alleged separation of the couple. Jodie Foster is a mother of two sons, who came in 1998 and 2001 to the world.