Jodie Foster was born on November 19,1962,in Los Angeles, Calif.,US.She is an American film actress who began her career as a mature child actress.
Jodie began her performing career as a very young.child in television ,appearing first in commercials.She starrd in her own short-lived series,Paper Moon(1974)based on the 1973 film of the same name.She appeared in a number of Disney films beginning with Napoleon and Samantha(1972)
Director Martin Scorsese cast Jodie in a bit part in Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore before giving her the role of Iris in Taxi Driver Her matore performance in Taxi Driver earned her an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress Her later films as a child actress were less impressive but her performances were always admired Jodie graduated from Yale University in 1985.
Perhaps because of for screen image of early maturity,Foster was able to make a relatively smooth transition to adult roles.In The Accused(1988),she gave a perfect performance as Sarah Tobias.In The Silence of the Lambs(1991) she tracks a killer as FBI agent Clarice Sterling.Both performances won her Academy Awards as best actress.
In the 1990s.Jodie went into other areas of filmmaking.She directed her first film,Little Man Tate ,in 1991 in which she also co-starred .In 1994 she co-produced Nell for which she also received an Oscar nomination for best actress.In1997 Foster starred in Contact.Her later films included Panic Room(2002).Inside Man (2006) and The Brave One(2007)正文结束了 中间有打错字的地方请见谅 毕竟我是人..希望大家尽量翻译 下面是题
1.Which of the following films won Jodie Foster Academy Awards as best actress?
a.Taxi Driver b.The Accused
c.Nell d.The Silence of the Lambs
A bcd B ac C bd D abcd
2.We can learn from the passage that____________
A it was in a TV series that Jodie made her first TV appearance
B some of Jodie performances as a child actress were thought to be very bad