She was also honored with the Golden Globe Cecil B. Foster began her professional career as a child model and later gained recognition as a teen idol through various Disney films, including Napoleon and Samantha , Freaky Friday , and Candleshoe For her role as a teenage prostitute in the latter, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also received a nomination for her performance in Nell The last of these earned Foster her fifth Oscar nomination.
Her parents' marriage ended before she was born, and she never established a relationship with her father. Jacobs until focusing on managing the acting careers of Buddy and Jodie. Foster was a gifted child who learned to read at age three. She also dubs herself in French-language versions of most of her English-language films. She subsequently studied at Yale University , [ 10 ] [ 13 ] where she majored in African-American literature. Foster's career began with an appearance in a Coppertone television advertisement in , when she was three years old.
Foster also appeared in films, mostly for Disney. She was accidentally grabbed by the lion on set, which left her with scars on her back. Foster said she loved acting as a child and values her early work for the experience it gave her: "Some people get quick breaks and declare, 'I'll never do commercials!
That's so lowbrow! Foster's mother was concerned that her daughter's career would end by the time she grew out of playing children and decided that Foster should also begin acting in films for adult audiences. Foster called Taxi Driver a life-changing experience and said it was "the first time anyone asked me to create a character that wasn't myself. It was the first time I realized that acting wasn't this hobby you just sort of did, but that there was actually some craft. Foster also acted in another film nominated for the Palme d'Or in , Bugsy Malone , [ 35 ] a British musical that parodied films about Prohibition Era gangsters by having all roles played by children.
Foster appeared in a major supporting role as a star of a speakeasy show. Her third film release in was the independent drama Echoes of a Summer , which had been filmed two years earlier. The performance earned her a Saturn Award. As Foster grew, her mother wanted photos to reflect Foster's ability to take on adult roles, so she arranged for Emilio Lari to do a partially nude photoshoot. The photoshoot was taken at a rented estate in Los Angeles, with Foster's mother and Lari's wife on set.
