“If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.” - Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster is tied as my favorite film actor of all-time; Ingrid Bergman is the other actor. I have been a huge fan of Jodie Foster ever since I'd seen her Oscar-winning performance in Jonathan Demme’s 1991 “The Silence of the Lambs.”

I look to Jodie Foster’s creditability as an actor because she is only a few handful of actors who can pull off dozens of performances in the wide-range of genres. Jodie Foster has been working in the show business since the age of three, but it wasn’t until 1976 when Martin Scorsese cast her along side Robert De Niro in “Taxi Driver,” which she garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the age of thirteen.

Jodie Foster is very intellectual; she graduated in 1980 as the class valedictorian from the private academy Lycée Français in Los Angeles in all-girl French Academy. She later went to the prestige Yale University and graduated in 1985 with a degree in Literature magna cum laudaee.
After graduating from Yale, Jodie Foster went into the stage of depression because of lack of confident from limited screen opportunities.

Her last chance to prove to herself as a struggling actor proved to be extraordinary, she has said in several interviews that if she did not get the part as Sarah Topias in the 1989, The Accused she would end her career as an actor and focus in pursuing her educational aspirations.

The Accused is utterly superb performed by Jodie Foster and deeply painful to watch as she portrays a gang-raped victim. The director of the film Johnathan Kaplin has stated that the rape scene was 95% Jodie Foster and there were no doubles to be substituted for Foster’s rape performance. Jodie Foster’s performance in The Accused garnered a second Academy Award nomination this one for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the win.

Jodie Foster won her second Oscar for her brilliant performance as Clarice Starling in “The Silence of the Lambs.” The American Film Institute which honors the best of the best films ever, Jodie Foster was honored and currently holds the position as “the greatest woman hero in American cinema.”

Jodie Foster suffered greatly and experienced hard ships in her early life. For example, she was stalked by John Hinckley during her college years, who attempted to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan to impress her (30 March 1981) because of his fascination from her performance in Taxi Driver. Today, Jodie Foster will leave an interview if the subject comes up.

Jodie Foster is impeccably brilliant as an actor and I am truly inspired by her effortless in cinema and her intellectual.