Jodie Foster

Academy Award winner Jodie Foster began her acting career at the age of three, with a role as the Coppertone Girl in a television commercial. She had a busy career as a child actress starting in television and film role soon followed with a couple of Disney movies. Her breakout role came when she was only 12 years old; in Taxi Driver (1976), an iconic and dark Martin Scorsese picture, Foster played a child prostitute who becomes the obsession of the title character, played by Robert De Niro. Taxi Driver garnered Foster an Oscar nomination, establishing her as a teenage star and leading to roles in popular films like Freaky Friday (1976) and Foxes (1980).

Even as a student enrolled in Yale University, she continued to act in movies to help pay for her education and support her family. 

Her next widely acclaimed role was playing rape survivor Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988). For this performance she won both an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress. Foster made a strong impression again in 1991 with her performance as FBI agent Clarice Starling in blockbuster hit The Silence of the Lambs (1991), for which she collected her second Academy Award and Golden Globe.

Firmly established as one of Hollywood's biggest stars and enjoying the professional and financial freedom to follow a different path, Foster turned to directing. Her feature-film directorial debut, Little Man Tate (1991), won widespread plaudits from critics. Between her directorial projects, Foster continued to act in hit movies such as Maverick (1994), Contact (1997) and the box office smash Panic Room (2002). Foster's choice of scripts spans from blockbuster to indie and foreign.

At the 70th Golden Globes, in 2013, Foster received the Cecil B. DeMille Award that is annually awarded to a performer for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment."