BIOGRAPHY:
Jodie Foster, its true first name is Alicia, was born on November
19, 1962 in Los Angeles. As of the two years age, it turns a
multitude of publicities and six years, plays in its first telefilm.
It continues thereafter to make appearances in spots and in
some films in particular "Alice Is not Here any more"
of Martin Scorsese in 1974. Two years later, same Martin Scorsese,
proposes to him the role of a teenager prostitute in his film
"Taxi Driver" at the side of Robert De Niro. Jodie
is success and notoriety, it is even named with the Oscars.
Despite everything, this success does not make him lose the
head and Jodie is devoted fully to its studies, acceptor to
turn only during the school holidays. In 1980, it is graduate
French college of Los Angeles (it usually speaks our language
and made it even doubling about its films) then between at the
University of Yale from where it leaves in 1985 with a diploma
English literature.
It takes again the
way of the studios in a more assiduous way and plays in some
films without great claims until 1988 or it obtains a Oscar
of the best actress for her role in "the Defendants"
Three years more, it reiterates the same performance with "the
Lord Of the Lambs". It benefits from its new statute to
produce and carry out its first film "the Small man",
then eager to control all the aspect of its career, it creates
its house of production: Egg Pictures. Throughout the Nineties
it turns in various films among which: "Sommersby",
"Maverick", "Nell", "Contact",
"Anna and the King". For this last, it touched a seal
of 15 million dollars, becoming thus one of the actresses best
paid of Hollywood. Jodie marks two pauses in its career to give
rise to two wire: Charles, born in 1998 and Kit, born in 2001.
We will not know of it more bus to ensure safeguarding, Jodie
does not wish to speak about its private life. Jodie makes its
return in a French film in 2004: Long Sunday Of Engagement.
They is its third French films after "Me, blue flower"
of Eric Hung in 1977, "the blood of the others" of
Claude Chabrol in 1984. In 2005, it is with the poster of the
thriller "Plane Flight" then in 2006 of the police
officer "Inside Man - the man Of the interior".
In spite of its nonconventional beauty, Jodie is recognized
only thanks to its considerable talent of actress or director
and knew to impose its trademark, for a long time, without any
doubt.