Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress and director.She has received two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. For her work as a director, she has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. she worked in several television series and made her film debut with Disney's Napoleon and Samantha. Foster's breakthrough came with Scorsese's psychological thriller Taxi Driver, in which she played a child prostitute; she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. After attending college at Yale, Foster struggled to transition into adult roles until she gained critical acclaim for playing a rape survivor in the legal drama The Accused, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She won her second Academy Award three years later for the psychological horror The Silence of the Lambs, in which she portrayed Clarice Starling. Foster made her debut as a film director the same year with Little Man Tate, and founded her own production company, Egg Pictures, in 1992. The company's first production was Nell, in which she also played the title role, garnering her fourth nomination for an Academy Award.