Jodie Foster was nominated at fourteen for Taxi Driver and won Best Actress twice, for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs, which is an unusual trajectory for a child performer.
Clarice Starling is the performance that lasts, and its power is that she plays competence undermined constantly by everyone around her instead of by the killer.
She graduated from Yale in literature while working, and has directed four features and extensive television including Black Mirror and Orange Is the New Black.
Nell and Contact fill out the 1990s, and True Detective brought a late television lead. She has been notably private about her personal life throughout.
