(born 1962) Actor and director who has brought intelligence and disturbing psychological depth to extremely varied roles. A child actor for Disney, Foster made a startling breakthrough in 1976 as the edgy addict in Taxi Driver and as a 1920s nightclub star in Alan Parker’s Bugsy Malone. Foster won Oscars for her gritty portrayal of a working-class, gang-rape victim in The Accused (1988) and again for her pas de deux with Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs (1992); she has also worked in French cinema and with Woody Allen. Her directorial debut was the 1991 Little Man Tate, focused on the situation of a child prodigy.