Alicia Christian Foster—better known by her nickname “Jodie”—was born in Los Angeles on November 19, 1962. The daughter of Evelyn “Brandy” Ella and Lucius Fisher Foster III, Jodie is the youngest of four children. The future Academy Award winner began her acting career at the tender age of 3, with a role as the Coppertone Girl in a television commercial for the iconic suntan lotion brand
