Birth Name: Alicia Christian Foster
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California
Date of Birth: November 19, 1962
Ethnicity:
*English, distant Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), remote Italian (father)
*possibly German (mother)
Jodie Foster is an American actress. On her father’s side, she has English, distant Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), and remote Italian, ancestry (Jodie is a descendant of Bartolomeo Taliaferro, an Italian, born c. 1562, in Venice, Italy, who moved to England and married an Englishwoman, Joane Lane).
Jodie’s mother is sometimes cited as being of German or part German ancestry.
Jodie’s paternal grandparents were Lucius Fisher Foster (the son of Alexis Caldwell Foster and Alice Eddy Fisher) and Constance Marie Robertson (the daughter of Samuel Richard Robertson and Elizabeth Martha Hughes).
Jodie’s maternal grandmother was Josie Almond.
Source: Genealogy of Jodie Foster (focusing on her father’s side) – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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