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Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress and filmmaker. She has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. She has also been honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2013 and the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2021. Foster began her professional career as a child model and later gained recognition as a teen idol through various Disney films, including Napoleon and Samantha (1972), Freaky Friday (1976), and Candleshoe (1977). She appeared in Martin Scorsese's comedy-drama Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and the thriller Taxi Driver (1976). For her role as a teenage prostitute in Taxi Driver, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Other early films include Tom Sawyer (1973), Bugsy Malone (1976), The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), Carny (1980), and Foxes (1980). After attending Yale University, Foster transitioned into mature leading roles and won two Academy Awards for Best Actress: for her portrayal of a rape victim in The Accused (1988) and for her role as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). She also received a nomination for her performance in Nell (1994). Her other notable films include Sommersby (1993), Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Anna and the King (1999), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007), Nim's Island (2008), Carnage (2011), Elysium (2013), The Mauritanian (2021), and Nyad (2023). The latter earned Foster her second Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 2024, she starred in the HBO anthology series True Detective: Night Country. Foster made her directorial debut with Little Man Tate (1991) and has since directed films such as Home for the Holidays (1995), The Beaver (2011), and Money Monster (2016). She founded her own production company, Egg Pictures, in 1992. Foster has received two Primetime Emmy nominations: one for producing The Baby Dance (1998) and another for directing the Orange Is the New Black episode "Lesbian Request Denied" (2013). She has also directed episodes of Tales from the Darkside (1988), House of Cards (2014), the Black Mirror episode "Arkangel" (2017), and Tales from the Loop (2020).