

The following year, she took the title role of a young murderer in "The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane." Foster followed that Oscar-nominated performance with appearances in several features including the gangster musical spoof "Bugsy Malone" playing Miss Tallulah, a bawdy speakeasy queen.


Majored in literature and graduated magna cum laude in 1985. Attended Yale University in New Haven, Conn. 19, 1962Īttended Lycee Francais in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1980. It really is your own feelings about how the experience is." You don't need that other identity that's dependent on whether people feel you're successful or not. But I'm just so lucky to have been a part of their lives. "But having kids gives you an identity - a part where you get to fail in some ways and be successful in other ways, but ultimately you look at them and you say, they don't really have anything to do with me. "Maybe that's what propels me forward to try harder, and try harder, and not let things go. "It's perhaps my nature that I feel like a failure a lot," she says. I would stay in the background and make sure they had somebody who was a part of their career, who we felt good about, who we trusted."Įven though she has won two Academy Awards and directed several well-recieved films, Foster does not consider herself a success. I don't want to be a part of your career. If they said this is something we really want to do, I'd say, I'm with you. I, of course, always wonder who I might have been, had I not been in the film business. Mostly because it is a tough life and most actors don't achieve a certain amount of success. "I don't have any burning desire for them to become an actor. "I would say: How about those Mets!" she jokes. On a personal note, Foster, who started her career when she was very young and managed by her mother, says if one of her children asked her about wanting to follow her in her footsteps, she would try to change the subject.
