Film
Jodie Foster
Actor and director, two Academy Awards
Born 1962
Photo: Claire Fridkin · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jodie Foster began acting as a child, won Academy Awards for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs, and later became a director. She is fluent in French and has dubbed her own performances into it.
Key achievements
- Two Academy Awards for Best Actress
- Graduated magna cum laude while working as a film actor
- Directed and produced films from the 1990s onwards
Universities
New Haven, Connecticut
Took a bachelor's degree in literature in 1985, graduating magna cum laude while already a working film actor.
Facts
- She wrote her Yale thesis on the novelist Toni Morrison, who later taught at Princeton and won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- She was already an Academy Award nominee at fourteen for Taxi Driver when she started applying to universities.
- She graduated on schedule despite filming during holidays, and has said the degree mattered to her precisely because acting had come so early.
Photographs
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