Alicia Christian Foster was born in Los Angeles. Her parents divorced three years before she was born, and she was conceived when her mother, Brandy, was visiting her father, Lucius, for child support. Alicia's siblings nicknamed her "Jodie," a name she has used in her profession. When she was just three years old, Jodie began acting in commercials, most notably for Coppertone sunblock. When she was five, Jodie landed her first acting role on the TV show "Mayberry R.F.D." (1968). She stayed very busy as a child actress, working primarily on television programs such as "The Doris Day Show" (1968), "Adam-12" (1968), and "Gunsmoke" (1955). In movies, she had small roles like playing Raquel Welch's daughter in Kansas City Bomber (1972), and first drew attention from critics with her performance in Taxi Driver (1976), in which she played a prostitute at the tender age of 12 and received her first Oscar nomination. She went on to have a very successful career in her early teens with leading roles in the Disney films Freaky Friday (1976) and Candleshoe (1977). The last film Jodie made during this era was the coming-of-age drama Foxes (1980), before enrolling at Yale University. Tragedy struck Jodie during her Freshman year when a crazed and obsessed fan name John Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan to impress her.
No comments:
Post a Comment