Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster is a two-time Academy Award-winning actress (The Accused, 1988; The Silence of the Lambs, 1991) who was notoriously private about her personal life for decades. She came out as lesbian during a widely celebrated Golden Globe acceptance speech in January 2013, thanking her then-partner Cydney Bernard, with whom she had been in a relationship from 1993 to 2008. In 2014 she married photographer Alexandra Hedison. Foster has spoken about the difficulty of being a queer public figure in Hollywood during a time when coming out carried real professional risk, and her visibility has been meaningful to generations of LGBTQ+ fans.