Jodie Foster Ha!Even Though It Didn’t Get Nominated For Any Oscars, We’ve Just Learned
Foster began acting in commercials at three years of age, and her first significant role came at age 13 in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen prostitute Iris for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. This performance received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She is the youngest of four children born to Evelyn Ella “Brandy” (née Almond) and Lucius Fisher Foster II. Her father, a decorated Air Force lieutenant-colonel turned real estate broker, came from a wealthy background and left his wife before Jodie was born. in 1969, she appeared in an episode of Gunsmoke, where she was credited as “Jody Foster”. As a teenager, Foster made several appearances on the French pop music circuit as a singer. Commenting on her years as a child actress, which she describes as an “actor’s career”, Foster has said that “it was very clear to me at a young age that I had to fight for my life and that if I didn’t, my life would get gobbled up and taken away from me.” She hosted Saturday Night Live at age 14, making her the youngest person to host at that time until Drew Barrymore hosted at the age of seven.
Jodie Foster Is Sending Her Beaver To Every Member Of The Academy! Sorry about that, but we HAD to go for that obvious joke! Ha!Even though it didn’t get nominated for any Oscars, we’ve just learned that Jodie Foster has sent DVD screeners of her Mel Gibson-starring movie The Beaver to EVERY member of the Academy!Here’s what Jodie writes about it in a letter that will accompany [...] [link]
