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Alicia Christian 'Jodie' Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. For her work as a producer and director, she has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She has also earned numerous honors such as the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2013, was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016 and received the Cannes Film Festival's Honorary Palme d'Or in 2021. Foster began her professional career as a child model and later as a teen idol in various Disney films including Napoleon and Samantha (1972), Freaky Friday (1976) and Candleshoe (1977). She acted in Martin Scorsese's comedy-drama Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and reunited with him in Taxi Driver (1976) in a role for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. Other early films include Tom Sawyer (1973), Bugsy Malone (1976), The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), Carny (1980) and Foxes (1980). After attending Yale University, Foster transitioned into mature leading roles earning two Academy Awards for playing a rape victim in The Accused (1988), and Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). She also received a nomination for Nell (1994). Her other notable films include Sommersby (1993), Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Anna and the King (1999), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007), Nim's Island (2008), Carnage (2011), Elysium (2013), Hotel Artemis (2018), and The Mauritanian (2021). Foster made her directorial film debut with Little Man Tate (1991) and has since directed films such as Home for the Holidays (1995), The Beaver (2011) and Money Monster (2016). She founded her own production company, Egg Pictures, in 1992. She earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for producing The Baby Dance (1999), and directing the Orange Is the New Black episode "Lesbian Request Denied" in 2014. She has also directed episodes for Tales from the Darkside, House of Cards, Black Mirror, and Tales from the Loop.

The Echoes of the Prairie Wind is a 2026 American neo-Western crime film written, co-produced, and directed by Jodie Foster. Produced by Legendary Pictures and The Stone Quarry and distributed by Universal Pictures, it is the installment in the Frontier's Wild trilogy and the first film directed by Foster herself about the modern American Western Frontier. The film stars Cara Delevingne, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Shannon, Brad Pitt, Vincent D'Onofrio, Scott Eastwood, Olivia Wilde, Laurence Fishburne, Diane Lane, and Allison Janney. It follows Clementine Gritstone, a young police ranger who works with her veteran partner, Darrell Cyrus, to solve a series of violent murders across several Native American territories within North Dakota's half of the Drift Prairie. The Echoes of the Prairie Wind had its world premiere in Las Vegas on January 29th, 2026, and opened in theaters on February 10th; it received widespread acclaim and grossed over $715 million worldwide at the box-office, making it the eleventh-highest-grossing film of 2026. Critics praised its direction, visuals, style, themes, story, and Delevingne and Jackson's performances. However, they were slightly conflicted over the violent content and deemed the third act "emotionally draining", and some were divided over its excessive 3-hour runtime. A sequel is in development.
