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Jodie Foster accepts the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie award for “True Detective” speaks onstage during the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Leon Bennett/WireImage)

Jodie Foster wins first-ever Emmy

Jodie Foster is honored with Hand and Footprint Ceremony at TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on April 19, 2024 in Hollywood, California. ( Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

Foster honors wife while being honored

Nandika Chatterjee

Kali Reis and Jodie Foster in "True Detective: Night Country" (Michele K. Short/HBO)

Why "Night Country" had to be straight

Christopher Eccleston and Jodie Foster in "True Detective" (HBO)

Sex and True Detective: Night Country

Melanie McFarland

Jodie Foster speaks onstage during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on January 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Jodie Foster almost played Princess Leia

Jodie Foster and Kali Reis in "True Detective" (HBO)

"True Detective's" overdue reinvention

Melanie McFarland

Jodie Foster at the 81st Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 7, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Gilbert Flores/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty Images)

Jodie Foster says Gen Z is annoying

John Hinckley Jr., as he sits on fence wall in front of the White House (Bettmann / Getty Images )

John Hinckley Jr. is officially free

Rebecca Breeds as Clarice Starling in CLARICE on the CBS Television Network (Brooke Palmer/CBS)

Can you hear the lambs snoring, Clarice?

Melanie McFarland

Jodie Foster arrives the 67th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) (Richard Shotwell/invision/ap)

Jodie Foster speaks out on gun control

Kate Erbland - Indiewire

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How to celebrate Penguin Day

John Hinckley Jr. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Hinckley to be released

Michael Garofalo

George Clooney in "Money Monster" (TriStar Pictures)

Clooney: Hostage to boredom

Charlize Theron in "Mad Max: Fury Road" (Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)

Why is Hollywood so scared?

Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Jodie Foster, at the 5th Annual Athena Film Festival, Feb. 5, 2015. (AP/Charles Sykes)

Jodie Foster on Women in Film

Jennifer Lawrence in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1", Rosamund Pike in "Gone Girl", Jodie Foster in "The Silence of the Lambs"

Sexism in Hollywood

Matthew McConaughey accepts the Oscar for best actor for his role in "Dallas Buyers Club" at the 86th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California March 2, 2014. (REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)

The viral acceptance speech

Matt Damon in "Elysium"

Matt Damon vs. the 1 percent

Keira Knightley (AP/Joel Ryan)

Laura Gottesdiener - Alternet

(NBC/Dana Edelson)

"SNL": Dry as a winter's bone

(AP/Jordan Strauss)

Foster's awkward, brave speech

Mary Elizabeth Williams

(AP/Paul Drinkwater)

10 awardworthy moments

Daniel D'Addario

(John Shearer/invision/ap)

Jodie Foster comes out!

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