Jodie Foster weathers a life on the screen with determination Few actors can claim to have the breadth and depth of the career Jodie Foster has, despite her still youthful years. She's been with audiences for generations, starting out as a child actress who made the rare successful transition into a major A-list acting career in her later years, and has never stinted at taking challenging, sometimes controversial roles. The actress, who receives the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime acheivement award at Sunday night's Golden Globes, was already a seasoned TV actress with credits on "Gunsmoke" and the TV adaptation of the 1973 film hit "Paper Moon" when she began accepting roles in much more adult-themed films, including "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" and "Taxi Driver," in which she played a 12-year-old prostitute. The role has been freighted with controversy for her entire career, and so obsessed John Hinckley Jr. that he shot President Ronald Reagan in 1980 to get Foster's attention. As she's grown up, Foster has released at least one film every year of her life, never taking an extended break. She segued into the occasional directing job with 1991's "Little Man Tate," and got behind the camera (and in front of it) for 2011's "The Beaver." Over the years, she showed a fearlessness with her no-genre-barred script choices, including the eerie "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" (1976), comedic western "Maverick" (1994), sci-fi "Contact" (1997) and suspense thriller "Panic Room" (where she played opposite a young Kristen Stewart). But it was her vulnerable-yet-strong roles in films like "Silence of the Lambs" (1989) and "The Accused" (1992) -- both of which earned her best actress Oscars -- that ushered her in as a formidable, talented adult actress who remains today one of Hollywood's least-known (she keeps her private life very secure; the names of the father (s) of her two children go unnamed), yet enduring performers.