girl in a television commercial and debuted as a television actress in a 1968 episode of Mayberry R.F.D. She was managed by her mother. In 1969, she appeared in a Christmas episode of Gunsmoke, where she was credited as Jody Foster. She is also credited as Jodi Foster for her 1970 Daniel Boone role and credited as Jodie Foster for her 1970 Adam-12 role. Although not a regular on The Courtship of Eddies Father, she appeared from time to time as Eddies friend Joey Kelly. She made her film debut in the 1970 TV movie Menace on the Mountain, worked with Martin Scorsese, Ellen Burstyn and Diane Ladd in Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore in 1974, and was featured as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone in 1976. As a child, Foster made a number of Disney movies, including One Little Indian (1973), and Napoleon and Samantha (1972), in which she was grabbed by a circus lion. Foster continued to star in Disney films into her early teens. On television, she appeared in an episode of The Partridge Family titled The Eleven-Year Itch, co-starred with Christopher Connelly in the 1974 TV series Paper Moon and alongside Martin Sheen in the 1976 cult film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. As a teenager, Foster made several appearances on the French pop music circuit as a singer. Commenting on her years as a child actress, which she describes as an actors career, Foster has said that it was very clear to me at a young age that I had to fight for my life and that if I didnt, my life would get gobbled up and taken away from me. She hosted Saturday Night Live at age 14, making her the youngest person to host at that time until Drew Barrymore hosted at the age of seven.
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