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Trivia
Birth name: Alicia Christian Foster
Date of birth: 19 November 1962
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Nickname: Jodie
Height: 5' 3½" (1.61 m)
Chosen by Empire magazine
as one of the 100 "Sexiest Stars" in film history (#45).
[1995]
Was supposed to be
Commencement Speaker for Smith College in Massachusetts but eventually
had to decline. [2000]
Uses her own voice in all
of the French versions of any of her movies because she can speak French
fluently.
As a youngster, was mauled
by a lion and carried briefly in its mouth after a day of filming a
Disney movie
Majored in literature at
Yale; graduated magna cum laude in 1985.
Son, Charles, born at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. [20 July 1998]
Had to pull out of Double
Jeopardy (1999) because she became pregnant.
Ranked #18 in Empire (UK)
magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
[October 1997]
Received honorary
Doctorate from Yale University. [1997]
Mother, Brandy, managed
her through age 20.
Owns and chairs Production
Company EGG PICTURES in Los Angeles, founded in 1990.
John Hinckley claimed that
he attempted to kill Ronald Reagan in order to impress her.
Graduated in 1980 as the
class valedictorian from the private academy Lycée Français in Los
Angeles.
Was reading by the time
she was three years old.
Fluent in French by age
14, she spoke her own lines in the 1977 film Moi, fleur bleue (1977) and
the 2004 film Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004).
Sister of Buddy Foster and
Connie Foster.
Listed as one of twelve
"Promising New Actors of 1976" in John Willis' Screen World,
Vol. 28. [1976]
Born Alicia Christian
Foster in 1962; her three siblings insisted on calling her
"Jodie."
Made her acting debut in a
Coppertone suntan lotion commercial when she was 3 years old. Has said
that her only regret is that she would love to live life without knowing
what it's like to be famous.
For Sommersby (1993),
Foster learned how to handle a horse-pulled buckboard.
Was offered a role in Me
and Rubyfruit (1989) twice and turned it down.
Has two convertibles.
Enjoys kickboxing, yoga,
karate, aerobics, and weightlifting and collects fancy kitchenware and
black and white photos.
Loves organic food.
Her favorite book is
"Franny and Zooey" by J.D. Salinger.
Received an Honorary
Degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Gave the Class Day speech
at Yale in 1993 and received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from
Yale in 1997.
Got the role of Annabel
Bradsford in the comedy Maverick (1994) after Meg
Ryan turned it down.
CBS was billed $12,000 for
her hair and makeup for her appearance on "60 Minutes II"
(1999), December 1999 to promote Anna and the King (1999). This total
was later determined to be incorrect and inflated.
Youngest host of
"Saturday Night Live" (1975) until Drew
Barrymore hosted in 1982.
Was replaced by Ashley
Judd for the lead in Double Jeopardy (1999).
Starred as Addie Pray in
the short lived TV show "Paper Moon" (1974), which was
originally a movie starring Tatum O'Neal.
Never liked "All in
the Family" (1971) because "it seemed to be doing the same
thing each week."
Got the role of Clarice
Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) after Michelle
Pfeiffer turned it down.
Son, Kit, born in Los
Angeles weighing 6 lbs 3 oz. [29 September 2001]
Father Lucius Foster left
the family when Jodie's mother was a few months pregnant with her.
Born at 8:14 AM PST.
Was named one of the 50
Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
Shut down production
company Egg Pictures in late 2001 to spend more time with her children.
Was first choice to play
the role of Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy
but could not get out of her contract with Disney. George Lucas then
decided to make Princess Leia older.
Replaced Nicole
Kidman in the role of "Meg Altman" in Panic Room (2002) at
the last minute when Kidman injured herself.
Recorded a number of songs
for her film Moi, fleur bleue (1977), including "Je T'Attends
Depuis La Nuit Des Temps," "When I Looked at Your Face"
and "La Vie C'est Chouette."
Measurements: 34B-24-33
1/2 (Souce: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
Has been in a serious
relationship with Cydney Bernard since they met in 1993 on the set of
the movie Sommersby (1993).
Her Oscar-winning role as
Clarice Starling from her 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs (1991) was
ranked #6 in the American Film Institute's "Heroes" list in
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003) (TV).
Her sister, Connie Foster,
was her stand-in during the more explicit scenes in Taxi Driver (1976).
In 2001, decided not to
reprise the role of Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001). The role
eventually went to Julianne
Moore.
Is doubled by stuntwoman
Jill Stokesberry in most of her films, starting with Sommersby (1993).
Shares a birthday with Meg
Ryan and Allison Janney. Jodie is, to the day, one year younger than
Meg and two years younger than Allison.
She was voted the 57th
"Greatest Movie Star" of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
Considers her role in The
Silence of the Lambs (1991) to be a counterpart to her role in Taxi
Driver (1976). In Taxi Driver (1976), she is a woman in bondage who has
to be rescued. In The Silence of the Lambs (1991), she rescues the
captive woman. In an interesting twist, her pimp in Taxi Driver (1976)
was played by Harvey Keitel, who went on to play her future mentor, Jack
Crawford, in Red Dragon (2002).
Has played both son and
daughter to John Astin. In Freaky Friday (1976), they play father and
daughter. In the live action "The Addams Family" (1964)
television series, Astin played Gomez. In an animated series, Foster
voiced Pugsley Adams.
Ranked #4 in VH1's list of
the "100 Greatest Kid Stars"
Was three, when in an
advertisement for suntan lotion, a puppy tugs at her underwear and
reveals her white bottom.
Her production company,
Egg Pictures, is named after the character played by Seth Green in The
Hotel New Hampshire (1984) in which Jodie starred.
Never revealed who was the
father of her two children. It is said that an anonymous donor is the
biological father of Charles and Kit.
She was fluent in Italian
by age of 18
Producer of Freaky Friday
(2003) Andrew Gunn had initially hoped she would be game to play the
mother (as Foster had played the daughter in the original film Freaky
Friday (1976). Foster declined, in part because of concerns that the
casting stunt would overshadow the movie's overall merit.
She was all set to star in
the TV film "The Best Little Girl in the World". Unfortunately
an actors strike prevented the film from being made. By the time the
production was ready to go, Jodie was already studying at Yale.
Her performance as Sarah
Tobias in "The Accused" (1988) is ranked #56 on Premiere
Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
She was the Commencement
Speaker at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in
May 2006 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the school.
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