Jodie Foster as well as "Carny" (1980) and "Foxes" (1980). After attending college at Yale, Foster struggled to transition into adult roles until she gained critical acclaim for playing a rape survivor in the legal drama "The Accused" (1988), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She won her second Academy Award three years later for the psychological horror "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), in which she portrayed Clarice Starling. Foster made her debut as a film director the same year with "Little Man Tate", and founded her own production company, Egg Pictures, in 1992. The company's first
Jodie Foster Jodie Foster Alicia Christian Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, director, and producer. She has received two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and the Cecil B DeMille Award. For her work as a director, she has been nominated a Primetime Emmy Award. A child prodigy, Foster began her professional career as a child model when she was three years old, and she made her acting debut in 1968 in the television sitcom "Mayberry R.F.D." In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several television series and made her film