Jodie Foster Graduated Magna Cum Laude Earning A Bachelors Degree In Literature In
In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. Foster’s films have spanned a wide variety of genres, from family films to horror. Foster attended a French-language prep school, the Lycée Français de Los Angeles, and graduated in 1980, as the valedictorian. She graduated magna cum laude, earning a bachelor’s degree in literature in 1985. She was scheduled to graduate in 1984, but the shooting of then-President Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley, Jr., in which Hinckley’s fascination with Foster created unwanted adverse publicity for her, caused her to take a semester’s leave of absence from Yale.
