Birth of Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster was born on 19 November 1962 in Los Angeles. An American actress and director, Foster began working as a child in commercials and in films such as Taxi Driver, in which she played a young prostitute at the age of twelve. After graduating from Yale, she won Academy Awards for Best Actress for The Accused and for The Silence of the Lambs, in which she played FBI trainee Clarice Starling. Her other films include Contact, Panic Room and Nell. She has also directed films such as Little Man Tate and The Beaver and episodes of television series, and in 2021 she won a Golden Globe for The Mauritanian.

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