Jodie Foster is from Los Angeles, California and her career began at age 3 when she starred in a television commercial. Her mother was taking her older brother Buddy to audition for a role when she was spotted tagging along by some casting agents. Fast forward to 1976 and she was cast by Martin Scorsese in the cult classic Taxi Driver as the teenage ‘worker’ that Robert De Niro rescues. She was just 12 years old at the time and had to fight for the right to star in such a racy and violent movie.
Taxi Driver basically catapulted Foster into superstardom and earned her an Oscar nomination. She would then slowly transition from a teenage star to a full on adult actress with movies such as The Accused, the performance in which would earn her an Oscar and a Golden Globe. She would win yet another Academy Award a few years later for the unforgettable role of Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs. More recently she starred alongside Denzel Washington and Clive Owen in Inside Man, and Elysium with Matt Damon.
Hailing from El Centro, California, Cher would first achieve fame in 1965 as one-half of the musical duo, Sonny, and Cher. Alongside her then husband, Sonny Bonno, they would reach the number one spot on the American and British charts for their debut single ‘I Got You Babe’. She also launched her solo career before landing her own TV series in the 1970s, The Sonny&Cher Comedy Hour, which was watched by 30 million people weekly. Her unique fashion sense and voice made her stand out from the crowd.
Cher continued to work on her music career and had hits such as “Gypsies, Tramps&Thieves”, “Half-Breed”, and “Dark Lady” and by the 1980s she had her own show in Las Vegas, for which she was reportedly earning as much as $330,000 per week. The superstar then ventured into the acting world and won an Oscar for her role in the 1987 film Moonstruck. More albums and movies followed, and as recently as 2013 released a new solo album, Closer to the Truth.
Born in in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, Susan Sarandon began her career in the 1970 movie Joe, before appearing in the soap operas A World Apart and Search for Tomorrow. She landed her first big role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975, which quickly became a cult classic and still is to this day. Susan also appeared alongside Robert Redford, playing the female lead in The Great Waldo Pepper. By 1981 she had earned his first Academy Award nomination for her part in Atlantic City.
