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 vanishes during an overnight flight. It became a global box office success, but received mixed reviews. It was followed by Spike Lee's critically and commercially successful "Inside Man" (2006), about a bank heist on Wall Street, which co-starred Denzel Washington and Clive Owen. The third thriller, "The Brave One" (2007), prompted some comparisons to "Taxi Driver", as Foster played a New Yorker who becomes a vigilante after her fiancé is murdered. It was not a success, but earned Foster her sixth Golden Globe nomination. Her last film role of the decade was in the children's adventure film "Nim's Island" (2008),