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Jodie Foster

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Jodie Foster

Movie Actress


Who is Jodie Foster?

Jodie Foster is an American movie actress who has won numerous awards include two Academy Awards for Best Actress for the films The Accused (1989) and The Silence of the Lambs (1992). Although she started her career with television roles, it was the big screen that made her famous. Her first significant role that made her a star is arguably Taxi Driver (1976) for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress portraying a child prostitute.

One fan became obsessed with Jodie Foster after watching the film Taxi Driver a number of times. John Hinckley, Jr. claimed that his assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1981 was meant to impress Foster.

Famous Kin

Jodie Foster is the 9th great-granddaughter of Mayflower passengers John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. She has a number of presidential kin including Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Calvin Coolidge, William Howard Taft, Richard Nixon, and George W. Bush.

Jodie Foster has kinship to a number of fellow thespians including John Wayne, Raquel Welch, Marilyn Monroe (probable), Orson Welles, Bing Crosby, Humphrey Bogart, Dick Van Dyke, Ted Danson, Henry and Jane Fonda, Paget Brewster, and Lucille Ball.

Some historically significant cousins include artist John Trumbull, poets William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Scopes Monkey Trial lawyer Clarence Darrow, women's rights advocate Susan B. Anthony, and the infamous accused murderess Lizzie Borden.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Jodie Foster

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin 3 times removed
via Thomas Judd

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin 4 times removed
via Frances

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

10th cousin
via John Alden

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin 1 time removed
via John Alden

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin
via Richard Treat

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Henry P. Baldwin

15th Governor of Michigan

6th cousin 4 times removed
via John Alden

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Henry P. Baldwin

15th Governor of Michigan

6th cousin 5 times removed
via John Porter

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Henry P. Baldwin

15th Governor of Michigan

5th cousin 5 times removed
via John Spofford

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Charles M. Dale

66th Governor of New Hampshire

8th cousin 2 times removed
via John Alden

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Ann B. Davis

TV Actress

12th cousin
via Henry Scott

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Norman Rockwell

American Artist

8th cousin 3 times removed
via John Bouton

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Ray Stanton Avery

Founder, Avery Dennison Corp.

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Treat

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Styles Bridges

63rd Governor of New Hampshire

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Anthony Fisher

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

11th cousin
via John Wheeler

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Joshua Pratt

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James B. Conant

President of Harvard University

8th cousin 2 times removed
via John Alden

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James B. Conant

President of Harvard University

7th cousin 4 times removed
via Macuth Pratt

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

7th cousin 1 time removed
via Samuel Eddy Jr.

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Ann B. Davis

TV Actress

10th cousin
via John Alden

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Ann B. Davis

TV Actress

10th cousin
via Thomas White

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Tamera Mowry

TV Actress

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Edmund Freeman

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Tia Mowry

TV Actress

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Edmund Freeman

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Jackson Browne

Singer and Songwriter

10th cousin
via Samuel Chapin

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Dr. Peggy Whitson

NASA and Axiom Space Astronaut

10th cousin 1 time removed
via Edmund Tapp Jr.

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Dewey F. Bartlett

19th Governor of Oklahoma

10th cousin
via Joseph Loomis

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Jodie Foster photo by Alan Light (CC BY 2.0)