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Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a
two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and
producer. She has also won two Golden Globes, three BAFTA awards
and a Screen Actors Guild Award, making her one of the few people
to have won all four major motion picture acting awards. Although
Foster's first acting appearance was at three years old, her first
significant role came in 1976 as an underage prostitute in Taxi
Driver, receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
She won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1988 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 Oscar for Best Actress. Her
films and roles have spanned a wide variety of genres, including
thrillers, crime, romance, comedy, children's movies, and science
fiction. Popular later films include the box office successes
Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005) and Inside
Man (2006). Foster's upcoming films include Nim's Island (2008),
The Last Spy (2008), Soviet Cowboy (2008), Investigation (2009),
and One Hundred Years On (2009) ... more
