![]() ![]() ![]() Her second film direction, Home for the Holidays (1995), was not well-received commercially, while critical reviews were mixed.Īfter career setbacks in the early 2000s, which included the cancellation of a film project and the closing down of her production company, Foster starred in four thrillers, Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006) and The Brave One (2007). Her other films in the 1990s included period drama Sommersby, Western comedy Maverick (1994), science fiction film Contact (1997), and period drama Anna and the King (1999). The company's first production was Nell (1994), in which she also played the title role, gaining another nomination for an Academy Award. Foster made her debut as a film director the same year with the moderately successful Little Man Tate (1991), and founded her own production company, Egg Pictures, in 1992. She won her second Academy Award three years later for her role in the sleeper hit The Silence of the Lambs, where she played Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee investigating a serial murder case. Her other critically acclaimed roles as a teenager were in the musical Bugsy Malone (1976) and the thriller The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), and she became a popular teen idol by starring in Disney's Freaky Friday (1976), Candleshoe (1977) and Foxes (1980).Īfter attending college at Yale, Foster struggled to transition to adult roles until winning widespread critical acclaim for her portrayal of a rape survivor in The Accused (1988), for which she won several awards, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. Foster's breakthrough came in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), in which she played a teenage prostitute the role garnered her a nomination for an Academy Award. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several primetime television series and starred in children's films. Foster began her career at the age of three as a child model in 1965, and two years later moved to acting in television series, with the sitcom Mayberry R.F.D. ![]() She has often been cited as one of the best actresses of her generation. Directed by star Hopper, Backtrack has some of the feel of his earlier, better Easy Rider: the cast is populated by such old Hopper chums as Dean Stockwell, Charlie Sheen, Joe Pesci, Bob Dylan, Vincent Price and Julie Adams and, like Easy Rider, it looks as though the story was improvised during filming.Alicia Christian " Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker who has worked in films and on television. ![]() Professional assassin Dennis Hopper is contracted to silence Foster for keeps. In Backtrack, Foster plays a youngish innocent who witnesses a mob hit. Originally prepared for European release under the title Catchfire, Backtrack wasn't given a wide distribution until 1991, and then only to capitalize on the Oscar win of Silence of the Lambs star Jodie Foster. Directed by star Hopper, Backtrack has some of the feel of his earlier, better Easy Rider: the cast is populated by such old Hopper. ![]()
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