Is Jodie Foster bilingual? How is Jodie Foster fluent in French?

Jodie Foster speaks French as a second language that she was taught as a child. Her parents put her in a French school in Los Angeles when she was young. She has also dubbed herself in French for some of her movies.

Jodie Foster is an award-winning American actress, former child model, film director, and producer best known for her iconic roles in The Accused (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and Inside Man (2006) among others.

Jodie Foster earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for producing The Baby Dance (1999), and directing the Orange Is the New Black episode “Lesbian Request Denied” in 2014.

Jodie Foster voiced a character in an episode of Frasier in 1996 and an episode of The X-Files in early 1997. In 2013, Foster received the honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 70th Golden Globe Awards.

Jodie Foster took on the role of Secretary of Defense Delacourt opposite Matt Damon in the dystopian film Elysium (2013). In 2015, Foster received the Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award at the Athena Film Festival.