Jodie Foster naked

Birth name: Alicia Christian Foster

Gender: Female

Profession: Actress

Height: 5' 3" (1.61 m)

Trivia

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#45). [1995]

Quote

"Being understood is not the most essential thing in life."

"I spent four hours with a shrink trying to prove I was normal enought to play a hooker. Does that make sense?" on her role in Taxi Driver (1976) when she was 13."
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away/ from"
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable"
"It's not my personality to be extroverted emotionally, so acting has been helpful to me."

"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."
(at age 14) "Kids talk like sailors now. Adults don't want to know."
(Months before turning 40, she described the advantages, April 2002): "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."

"If I fail, at least I will have failed my way."

"A cheap cry for attention and money filled with hazy recollectons, fantasies and borrowed press releases. (Buddy) has done nothing but break (their mother's ) heart his whole life."
- commenting on, Foster Child, her brother Buddy's, unauthorized biography about her."
There's something so pure about the ways boys love you."
- on devoting more time to parenting her sons than film work."
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."

Salary Panic Room (2002) $12,000,000 Anna and the King (1999) $15,000,000 Contact (1997) $9,000,000 Maverick (1994) $5,000,000
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: Intense, talented young woman whose determination and artistic daring have made her one of the top actresses in Hollywood. Foster's career began early; as a child model and performer, she was managed by her mother-who, among other accomplishments, got young Jodie a modeling job as one of the bare-bottomed tykes in the Coppertone ads. Her first film was Napoleon and Samantha (1972), a Disney outing that cast her as a runaway. By the time she was a teenager, Foster already had several Hollywood pictures to her credit, including One Little Indian (1973), Tom Sawyer (1973), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1975), and Echoes of a Summer (1976), in addition to three interesting films: an early Martin Scorsese picture, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), playing a tough tomboy; Bugsy Malone (1976), a gangster spoof cast entirely with children, in which she plays a tough dame who's pelted with whipped cream "bullets" in the finale; and Freaky Friday (1977), an amusing Disney comedy in which she switched identities with onscreen mom Barbara Harris. (She also costarred with Helen Hayes and David Niven in another 1977 Disney comedy, Candleshoe) Scorsese, impressed with Foster, cast her as a teenaged prostitute opposite Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976). Foster's startling performance in that film brought her more attention than she ever could have imagined. In addition to earning an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, her portrayal made Foster the object of obsessive fixation for one John Hinckley, who attempted to assassinate President Reagan on her behalf. By then, Foster had enrolled at Yale University, where she studied literature (and not acting: Foster is an instinctual actress and has never received formal theatrical training). During school vacations, she managed to appear in several features, including Carny (1980), Foxes (1980), and The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), before graduating in 1985.Already fascinated by behind-the-camera work, Foster coproduced one of her starring vehicles, 1986's Mesmerized She delivered mature, accomplished performances in the little-seen Siesta (1987), Five Corners and Stealing Home (both 1988). But it was as a lower-class rape victim defending her character in The Accused (1988) that Foster galvanized audiences and won herself a Best Actress Oscar-a feat she repeated in 1991 for her portrayal of federal agent Clarice Starling in the megahit thriller The Silence of the Lambs making her one of Hollywood's hottest properties. Having made her directorial debut with an episode of TV's "Tales from the Darkside," she entered the feature-film arena with Little Man Tate (1991). As director and star, Foster turned in an exceptional job, telling the story of a child prodigy-a character with whom she could certainly empathize. Her cameo in Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog (1992) brought Foster back to a role she'd played at age 12: a prostitute. She costarred with Richard Gere in Sommersby (1993) giving another affecting performance, and appeared in 1994's Maverick. Foster scored another Best Actress nomination for her portrayal of a backwoodswoman in Nell (1994), the first film made by her own company, Egg Productions. She then directed Home for the Holidays.

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