Jodie Foster biography

Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series "Mayberry R.F.D." (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered to play the prostitute Iris in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received an Academy Award nomination in the "Best Supporting Actress" category, marked a breakthrough in her career. In 1980 she graduated as the best of her class from the College Lycee Francais and began to study English Literature at Yale University, from where she graduated magna cum laude in 1985. One tragic moment in her life was March 30th, 1981 when John Warnock Hinkley Jr. attempted to assassinate the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Hinkley was obsessed with Jodie and the movie Taxi Driver (1976) in which Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro, tried to shoot presidential candidate Palantine. Despite the fact that she never took acting lessons, she was the first actress to receive two Oscars before the age of thirty. She received her first award for her part as Sarah Tobias in Accused, The (1988) and the second one for her performance as Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs, The (1991).