Jodie Foster

At the age of seven, Mozart –a musical genius– gave violin concerts, and Jodie Foster –a child prodigy of interpretation– made her debut as an actress. At 14, the composer premiered an opera, and she was nominated for an Oscar for the first time. Both have in common the fact that they have been blessed with a divine gift for their respective artistic disciplines, where they achieve perfection with unusual simplicity and unusual versatility.

Her real name is Alicia Christian Foster, the fourth daughter of a middle-class family in Los Angeles (California). Shortly after coming into the world, on November 19, 1962, her father Lucius went to buy tobacco and did not return, leaving Evelyn, the actress’s mother, destitute, who insisted that the girl make her way in the world of acting, introducing her to all the ‘castings’ that she had news of. At an early age, Jodie – the nickname by which her brothers knew her – was involved in commercials. In 1968 she was signed for a fixed character in the Mayberry RFD series , where her older brother Buddy also played a role. In the early 1970s, she appeared occasionally in shows like Ironside , Bonanza , and Kung Fu ., until he went to the big screen with Napoleon and Samantha , a kind Disney production starring Michael Douglas .

Martin Scorsese noticed her and gave her a piece of paper in Alicia Doesn’t Live Here Anymore . Dazed by her possibilities, he entrusted her with a difficult role in Taxi Driver , where she shocked her with the emotional work of her teenage call girl, for which she was nominated for an Oscar. The public was seduced by her talent, and even a disturbed man named John Hinckley committed an attack against President Reagan, to get the attention of Jodie, who had left him in love. This traumatic event caused a real shock to the interpreter, who she refers to as “my little Hinckley drama.” At that time she did Bugsy Malone , a musical by the restless Alan Parker, approximation to gangster movies, replaced by children. Unlike so many famous kids spoiled by not assimilating fame, Jodie was never seduced by the neon lights: she did not interrupt her studies at the French Lycee and in the early 80s she took a break to graduate in English literature from the University from Yale with the highest grade. “Then I began to have a real childhood,” recalls the actress, who at that time made good friends such as David Duchovny – star of The X Files – and producer Randy Stone, who is rumored to be the father of her two children. Jodie is currently a single mother, and she has never revealed the name of the father of her children.

After Hotel New Hampshire – adaptation of the John Irving novel – and the little gem Five Corners , she composed one of the most elaborate roles of her career, that of a rape victim in The Accused , which won her the Oscar for best actress. She wanted her then to play independent women: “She wanted to be the protagonist, not the boy’s lover, friend or girlfriend. If she didn’t get it, she preferred to play supporting roles in movies outside of Hollywood,” she said. In case any sector of the public had doubts about her versatility, she definitely established herself with Clarice Starling, the FBI agent bent on capturing one psychopath with the help of another in The Silence of the Lambs.. In addition to renewing psychopathic cinema, she won a second Oscar at the age of less than 30, a feat that no other actress had achieved. In 1991 she made her directorial debut with Little Tate , where she was also the mother of the protagonist, a gifted child shunned by her classmates, who to some extent reminded Foster herself. So far she has directed another title, Home for the Holidays, but she is preparing another two, Flora Plum and Sugarland .

In the 90s he remained at the top of stardom with titles as varied as Sommersby , Maverick , Nell , Contact and Ana y el Rey . “The only point in common that my works usually have is that they have to do with psychology and family, my two favorite topics,” the actress commented. She also played a bit part with Woody Allen in Shadows and Fog , where she reprized as the call girl. Sitting so high up, she has taken the arrival of the new millennium in stride. As well as minimal roles in The Dangerous Lives of the Altar Boys and Long Engagement, seems to be seduced by thrillers. “I like movies that create tension,” said the actress, who has starred in Panic Room and Flight Plan: Missing . Inside Man belongs to the same genre , whose filming has ended with Spike Lee , and where she is accompanied by Denzel Washington .