Jodie Foster — one of the most talented actresses of Hollywood, the owner of two awards "Oscar" for Best Actress. Extraordinary, strong, provocative, mysterious, sincere — all these qualities of many-sided actor's talent built Foster to a star Olympus and long ago entered her name in a beech sheet of the well-known world directors.
1. her Real name — Alicia Christian Foster. However relatives since the childhood called the girl Jodie — so this nickname and was assigned to the actress. Her father, the former colonel of the U.S. Air Force, left a family still before his younger daughter was born. Foster has elder brother Buddy and two elder sisters — Cindi and Connie. About the early years the actress remembered: "My mother eternally was late, and in the childhood it really demented me. So now I always arrive on time or, or slightly earlier. As you can see, education to children sometimes can be given target to blank absolutely incidentally".
2. her actor's talent was shown by strong at absolutely early age: in 3 years Jodie already appeared in commercials and TV series. In many years she noticed in interview: "Sadly, if you spent the childhood, so plainly it and without having seen". In the 1970th Jodie acted at the well-known studio Walt Disney : once on a platform the trained lion even seized the young actress by a foot — but, fortunately, everything ended for it well.
3. the First fanfares of glory began to sound for the actress in 1976 after her role in the movie "Taxi driver": 14-year-old Jodie convincingly played the minor prostitute, for as was nominated for "Oscar". In all frank scenes it was replaced by elder sister. The image of the heroine literally shook especially impressionable audience: On March 30, 1981 somebody John Uornok Hinckley Jr. made attempt at Ronald Reagan, at that time the U.S. President. He "devoted" the crime Foster, is more exact — to her heroine Ayres from "Taxi driver".
4. In 1985 Jodie Foster graduated from the Yale university, one of the most prestigious in the world. In 12 years she received degree of the Honourable doctor of the fine arts of this university. Besides, the Oscar-winning star perfectly knows French and quite often itself duplicates the roles for the French hire. "Sometimes I dream of simple outwork — Foster admits — to spend evenings on a sofa, to roll with the book and not to feel any responsibility that will occur tomorrow. But, thank God, I never thought over it seriously".
5. "Destiny" — very convenient word for those who never accepts decisions" — are considered by the actress. Foster's roles got used "to beat out" independently. It always accepted invitations to act only in those pictures which were it to liking. So, thanks to the persistence, she received a leading role in the movie "Accused" which in 1989 brought it first "Oscar" and provided a place in the list of the most demanded actresses. Second "Oscar" for a role of the talented investigator in the world blockbuster "Silence of Lambs" to it handed over in 1992. Foster became the first actress in the history of the world cinema, received two prestigious award till 30 years.