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==Jodie Foster== <table><tr><td>Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster was born 19 Nov 1962 in Los Angeles County, California, the youngest daughter of four children born to Lucius Fisher Foster III and his wife Evelyn Ella "Brandy" Almond. Her father, was an Air Force colonel who later became a real-estate agent. Lucius already had three children with a previous wife when he met Brandy in 1954 and married her impetuously in Tijuana. Lucius and Brandy had been divorced for some time before she was born. Her brother Buddy explains Jodie's conception as the result of a brief re-encounter between their parents some time after the divorce. Jodie's mother supported the family by working for a film producer, and later in public relations. Both Jodie's parents briefly married other people. Jodie's brother Lucius "Buddy" Foster was a child-star, most well-known in his television roles as "Johnny Dow" in 17 episodes of "Hondo" in 1967; and as "Mike Jones" in 29 episodes of Mayberry, R.F.D. from 1968 to 1971. Although [Jodie] Foster's first acting appearance was at three years old, her first significant role came in 1976 as an underage prostitute in Taxi Driver, receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. After becoming a star, Jodie attended school at the prestidious Lycee Francais.</td> <td>http://www.nndb.com/people/756/000023687/jodie_4.jpg</td></tr></table> She won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1988 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Oscar for Best Actress." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jodie_Foster&oldid=190237220 "Jodie Foster"], permanent-link on Wikipedia) Jodie Foster met her long-term partner [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydney_Bernard Cydney Bernard] (b. 1953) in 1993/4 on the set of the film Sommersby. They have been living together for the past 14 years. After long speculation about her sexuality, Jodie finally came out Dec 2007. Jodie has two sons, but has deflected questions about who their father(s) might be. In 1997, her brother Buddy Foster, wrote a book ''Foster Child'', which purports to be a biography of Jodie Foster, but has been called a biography of the entire Foster family. The book discusses many events growing up in his family. He paints his mother in a villainous way, especially stating that she spent all his career earnings, and when Jodie became a star, the rest of the family suffered some neglect. ===Sources for 1=== *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodie_Foster "Jodie Foster"], current-link on Wikipedia *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/celeb/foster.htm "Jodie Foster"], research by Robert Battle *[http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0287711/ "Buddy Foster"] at IMDb, his career from 1967 to 1980 *[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451195612?ie=UTF8&tag=countyh-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0451195612 'Foster Child:A Biography of Jodie Foster'], by [her brother] Buddy Foster with Leon Wagener ISBN 0525941436 [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36292888&referer=one_hit worldcat entry] *[http://www.geocities.com/jodiefosterph/articles.html "Jodie Foster Articles and Interviews"], a set of articles clipped by Starling from 1991 to 2002 *[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,287857,00.html "Foster Child"], a review in Entertainment Weekly, 16 May 1997 *[http://www.ciao.co.uk/Jodie_Foster_The_Most_Powerful_Woman_in_Hollywood_Philippa_Kennedy__Review_5471447 "Jodie Foster : The Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood], by Philippa Kennedy, a Review *[http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=geolarson2&id=I144459 "An Extended Family"], by George Larson II, geolarson2@gmail.com, updated 8 Feb 2008, hosted at the Ancestry World Tree Project, pedigree-view *[http://www.jodiefoster.nu/media/1990_autopsy.htm "I Really Liked The Autopsy Scene"], by Gerri Hirshey, ''Rolling Stone'', 1991 March
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