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Autor: prof. Gordana Matorkić

Naziv jedinice: Jodie Foster`s Biography

JODIE FOSTER’S BIOGRAPHY

Jodie Foster was born on November 19th, 1962, in Los Angeles, California. She was born as Alicia Christian. She lived with her mother and other three children. Her father didn`t live with them. Her parents were divorced before she was born. Her mother, Brandy, worked for a film producer and she influenced Jodi a lot to fall in love with the exotic international cinema.

Jodie Foster started her career when she was only two years old. She appeared in her first commercial, for Coppertone suntan lotion. For four years she acted in commercials and finally she acted as an actress in a TV series when she was six. In 1975 Jodie acted in a film "Taxi Driver" and everybody liked her. She was brilliant in that movie. She received an Academy Award nomination when she was fourteen. It was very important moment in her career.

Jodie Foster attended an exclusive school in Los Angeles. She graduated in 1980 and she was a very good student. After that she attended a very famous Yale University. She studied English Literature there, and graduated as an excellent student in 1985.

One tragic moment in her life was March 30th, 1981 when John Warnock Hinkley Jr. tried to kill the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Hinkley was obsessed with Jodie and the movie "Taxi Driver". In that movie one character, (Robert De Niro played him), tried to shoot presidential candidate. He wanted to impress Jodie Foster.

Jodie Foster was nominated four times for an Academy Award in her life. She received two Oscars before she was thirty years old. She received her first award for her acting in "Accused" (in 1988) and the second one for her performance as Clarice Starling in "Silence of the Lambs" (in 1991).

She didn`t only play in movies. She also directed them. Her first movie was "Little Man Tate" in 1991. She returned behind the camera in 1995 when she directed "Home for the Holidays."

She currently lives in the San Fernando Valley with her son, Charles.