At
the age of three she was already a star in advertising
: her little bottom is uncovered for the spot for well-known sunscreens.
At the age of
six she made her debut as an actress on television
, in the series "
Mayberry RFD
.",
and
at the age of ten she arrived at the cinema
, in the film
"Two boys and a lion"
.
At 12, Jodie Foster received her first Oscar nomination
for her role as a teenage prostitute in
Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver
.
Foster,
who graduated from Yale
in 1985,
won her first Oscar in 1988
, thanks to
Jonathan Kaplan's film "The Accused"
, where she played the role of a waitress who is gang-raped.
Her second statuette comes in 1991
, for the role of FBI agent,
Clarice Starling, in "The Silence of the Lambs" by Jonathan Demme.
In addition to being a successful actress, over the years she has also become a
director and producer
, as well as
an activist for LGBT rights, with her firm, authoritarian and never "screamed" style.
In 2021, at the Cannes Film Festival,
in his speech imbued with passion and seasoned with words such as
"rebirth", "changes" and "cultural transitions"
, he said: “
The
time is right.
Never like now, in Hollywood and in the world of cinema, is there an opportunity to assert oneself, the possibility after years of struggles, to see everyone represented.
It's the right time to tell new stories, because things have completely changed, the perspectives for women are completely different
."