Biography
Measurements
Bust: 34"
B
Waist: 24"
Hips: /2"
Friends and Family
Russell Crowe
[Friend]
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Buddy Foster
[Brother]
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Connie Foster
[Sister]
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Evelyn `Brandy` Ella Almond
[Mother]
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Lucius Fisher Foster III
[Father]
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 On backing Mel Gibson after his 2006 anti-Semitic comments to a cop while drunk: Is he an anti-Semite? Absolutely not. But, it`s no secret that he has always fought a terrible battle with alcoholism. [Mel] was a shining example of how low you can go when you are young and still pull yourself up. He took his recovery very seriously, which is why I know he is strong enough to get through this now. On her role as the child prostitute Iris in Taxi Driver (1976): "At first I didn`t want to do the part, but only because I was afraid my friends would tease me afterwards. I thought, wow, they`ve got to be kidding. It was a great part for a 21-year old, but I couldn`t believe that they were offering it to me. I was the Disney kid."
On Taxi Driver (1976): "I think it`s one of the finest films that`s ever been made in America. It`s a statement about America. About violence. About loneliness. Anonymity. Some of the best works are those that have tried to imitate that kind of film, that kind of style. It`s just a classic. I felt when I came home every day that I had really accomplished something."
On the making of Taxi Driver (1976): "There was a welfare worker on the set every day and she saw the daily rushes of all my scenes and made sure I wasn`t on set when Robert De Niro said a dirty word."
On the making of Taxi Driver (1976): "You rarely have a director like Martin Scorsese or a co-star like Robert De Niro, who rehearses and rehearses until you get the feeling that for the time you`re with him he is the character. It`s so real it`s frightening."
[Criticizing the film adaptation of Sin City (2005)]: That was so painfully cartoonish I was offended. I don`t know how you enjoy or laugh about a child abduction and molestation. What part of that sentence is funny? I can`t get beyond that. I don`t know if everyone understands the impact of that movie`s message.
"I`m lucky that people do leave me alone. I`m not Madonna. The red carpet is work for me. I work from 9-to-5 and when I get home, I don`t want to go back to work by going to an industry event. For me, putting on makeup and a fancy dress is work".
Acting, for me, is exhausting. I`m always more energized by directing. It`s more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It`s a huge passion for me.
As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don`t want to be some Botoxed weirdo.
I love to see theater but not to work in it. Too messy, and I have a bit of an inferiority complex.
I`m interested in directing movies about situations that I`ve lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I`ve come to believe in.
I`m nervous every day on a film set. The anxiety of performance is not like anything else because you never know if you`ll get there or not. There is an anxiety when it comes to finding the truth.
I`ve learned something in the last few years that I really didn`t know about myself as an actor. I basically learned how to stay happy. It`s important for me to be happy working or I feel resentful. I don`t like it. I hate myself. What I know now is that I really need to love the director. I need him to be a good parent. And then I will lie down on the train tracks for him and go to the ends of the earth for him.
Motherhood doesn`t mean I don`t have a creative side that I need to nourish. It doesn`t mean I don`t have independence from them. I`d be a crazy person if I didn`t.
On devoting more time to parenting her sons than film work: "There`s something so pure about the ways boys love you."
What I didn`t realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn`t know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.
"Kids talk like sailors now. Adults don`t want to know." -- at age 14.
Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it`s not acceptable.
I could tell you the criticism backward and forward about Little Man Tate (1991). But it didn`t bother me as long as they were talking about the work and not about `she has fat thighs` or something. But I fared really well with `Tate,` so I shouldn`t be complaining.
If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.
It`s not my personality to be extroverted emotionally, so acting has been helpful to me.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it`s something to get away from.
On "Foster Child", her brother Buddy Foster`s unauthorized biography about her: "A cheap cry for attention and money filled with hazy recollections, fantasies and borrowed press releases. Buddy has done nothing but break our mother`s heart his whole life."
On her role in Taxi Driver (1976), when she was 13: "I spent four hours with a shrink trying to prove I was normal enough to play a hooker. Does that make sense?"
On the advantages of being an actress who is months from turning 40: "They`ve lived longer, they`re more confident about their choices and they don`t have to be hip and cool anymore, which I think is a godsend - you make really bad choices when you are trying to be hip." -- April 2004
Trivia
An asteroid, 17744 Jodiefoster, was named after her (1998).
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Attended Yale University at the same time as Jennifer Beals.
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Considered Randy Stone her best friend until his death.
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Has a fear of snakes.
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Her family celebrates both Christmas and Channukah.
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Her favorite actor is Robert De Niro.
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Her favorite actress is Meryl Streep.
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Made an acceptance speech at a breakfast for Hollywood Reporter`s Women in Entertainment, where she paid tribute to her longtime companion Cydney Bernard, ending all speculations about her sexual orientation (December 2007).
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Rock group Asia wrote the song `Alibis` about her.
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Her performance as Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988) is ranked #56 on Premiere Magazine`s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
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In an article published on 5 September 2006, Foster told The New York Times that she is such a
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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.
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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.
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Revealed during a 2005 interview on the French talk show
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She was all set to star in the TV film The Best Little Girl in the World (1981) (TV). 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.
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She was fluent in Italian by the age of 18.
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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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Starred in two failed TV shows based on successful movies:
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Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1989.
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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).
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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
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Her production company, Egg Pictures, is named after the character played by Seth Green in The Hotel New Hampshire (1984) in which Jodie starred.
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Her sister, Connie Foster, was her stand-in during the more explicit scenes in Taxi Driver (1976).
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In 2001, decided not to reprise the role of Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001). The role eventually went to Julianne Moore.
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Is doubled by stuntwoman Jill Stokesberry in most of her films, starting with Sommersby (1993).
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Recorded a number of songs for her film Moi, fleur bleue (1977), including
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Replaced Nicole Kidman in the role of
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Was first choice to play the role of Princess Leia in the original
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Was three, when in an advertisement for suntan lotion, a puppy tugs at her underwear and reveals her white bottom.
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Born at 8:14 AM PST.
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CBS was billed $12,000 for her hair and makeup for her appearance on
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Father Lucius Foster left the family when Jodie`s mother was a few months pregnant with her.
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Got the role of Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) after Michelle Pfeiffer turned it down.
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Never liked
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Shut down production company Egg Pictures in late 2001 to spend more time with her children.
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Starred as Addie Pray in the short-lived TV show
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Was replaced by Ashley Judd for the lead in Double Jeopardy (1999).
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Was stalked by John Hinckley during her college years, who attempted to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan to impress her (30 March 1981).
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Youngest host of
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Enjoys kickboxing, yoga, karate, aerobics, and weightlifting and collects fancy kitchenware and black and white photos.
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For Sommersby (1993), Foster learned how to handle a horse-pulled buckboard.
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Gave the Class Day speech at Yale in 1993 and received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Yale in 1997.
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Got the role of Annabel Bradsford in the comedy Maverick (1994) after Meg Ryan turned it down.
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Has two convertibles.
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Her favorite book is
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Loves organic food.
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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.
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Received an Honorary Degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Was offered a role in Me and Rubyfruit (1989) twice and turned it down.
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Born Alicia Christian Foster, her three siblings insisted on calling her
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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).
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Listed as one of twelve
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Received an honorary doctorate from Yale University (1997).
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Sister of Buddy Foster and Connie Foster.
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Was reading by the time she was three years old.
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As a child, was attacked by a lion and carried briefly in its mouth while filming Disney`s Napoleon and Samantha (1972).
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Born to Lucius Fisher Foster III, an Air Force colonel turned real estate agent, and Evelyn `Brandy` Ella Almond, a film producer, her father left the family after few months before her birth.
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Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100
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Earned a B.A. in literature and graduated magna cum laudae at Yale University (1985).
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