Jodie Foster Makes Rare Personal Comments About Sons Kit and Charlie and Wife Alex as She Wins 2025 Golden Globe

Mar. 15, 2025

Jodie Foster at the 2025 Golden Globes.Photo:CBS

CBS

There’s a new best actress in town!

On Sunday, Jan. 5,Jodie Fosterwon the award for best female actor in a limited or anthology series at the 2025 Golden Globes for her role inTrue Detective: Night Country.

“The greatest thing about being this age and being in this time is having a community of all these people, especially you, Sofía,” Foster said, referring to her fellow nomineeSofía Vergara.

On Foster’s way up to the stage, Vergara screamed to the HBO star, “Give me one!”

Foster proceeded to thankNight Country’s “wonderful, beautiful” showrunner, writer and director Issa López, costar Kali Reis and the Indigenous people who inspired the show’s story. “They changed my life and hopefully they’ll change yours,” Foster said.

She also shouted out her kids and wifeAlexandra Hedison.

“I just want to thank my family,” Foster said. “Because Kit, my scientist son, and Charlie, my actor son who’s starting his career, hopefully you understand the joy, such joy, that comes from doing really hard, meaningful, good work. So my boys, I love you, and this, of course, is for you. And the love of my life, Alex, thank you forever.”

Jodie Foster in ‘True Detective: Night Country’.Michele K. Short/HBO

Michele K. Short/HBO

Foster, 62, won for starring as Detective Liz Danvers. The series followed Danvers as she attempted to figure out what happened to eight missing men who worked at the Tsalal Arctic Research Station in Ennis, Alaska, alongside her partner Evangeline Navarro (Reis).

At the series' January premiere, Foster told reporters at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles that her character was an “Alaska Karen.”

“Liz Danvers is awful. She is ‘Alaska Karen.’ No two ways about it,” she admitted. “She’s an awful, awful character. But you see why.”

Other nominees includedCate Blanchett,Cristin Milioti,Naomi WattsandKate Winslet, and each had an outstanding year themselves.

Blanchett, 55, was nominated for her role inDisclaimer. The series based on Renée Knight’s best-selling novel of the same name, followed acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett), who “built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others,” per the official synopsis.

As she tries to find out the writer’s true identity, she has to “confront her past before it destroys both her own life” and her relationships with both her husband, Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen), and their son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee).

Speaking toThe Hollywood Reporterin November about the gravity of her role, Blanchett said, “Hopefully, the series allows you to see that there are many points of view, and it’s not always the point of view that’s being sung the loudest that is the most true. And it can bury and obscure more fragile but equally powerful and valid perspectives, and that is of course my character.”

Cristin Milioti in ‘The Penguin’.Macall Polay/HBO

Macall Polay/HBO

Milioti, 39, was nominated for her role as Sofia Falcone inThe Penguin. The limited eight-episode series, which picks up after the events ofRobert Pattinson’s 2022 portrayal ofThe Batman, showed how Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) tries to take a leadership role in the Gotham City underworld

In a conversation with PEOPLE in December, Milioti confessed a Golden Globe nomination is not something she necessarily “ever envisioned” for herself — but it was all the more special to be recognized for a show she loves so much.

Recalling her “gut alarm was firing on all cylinders” when she first read the script forThe Penguin, Milioti said, “I was like, ‘I need to play this. I love this character so much.’ And I’m so lucky that it worked out.”

“And so to see what it’s done and to see the amount of people it’s reached, it’s just been… Yeah, it’s been incredible,” she continued of the HBO series.

Sophia Vergara in ‘Griselda’.Courtesy of Netflix

Courtesy of Netflix

Vergara, 52, was nominated for her role as the titular character in Netflix’sGriselda.She channeled Godmother of CocaineGriselda Blancoin the limited series that follows how Blanco built and ran a drug cartel in Miami in the 1970s and 1980s before being killed in her native Colombia in 2012.

Vergara told PEOPLE she spentthree hours a day in hair and makeupto transform into Blanco — and the commitment paid off.

“The people that have watched it now have been so responsive and they’ve been telling me how much they love it,” she said. “It’s really exciting to see how the people are reacting to it. I’m very proud of it.”

Naomi Watts in ‘Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans’.Pari Dukovic/FX

Pari Dukovic/FX

Watts, 56, was nominated for her portrayal as New York City socialite Babe Paley inRyan Murphy’sFeud: Capote Vs. The Swans.

The series tells the story ofTruman Capote’s falling out with Babe and her friends — who he called “swans” — after he published a chapter of his bookAnswered Prayersthat aired out the women’s secrets. The story, titled “La Côte Basque, 1965,” most notably alleged that Babe’s husband Bill, the co-founder of CBS, cheated on her.

“It became such an undoing for Babe,” Watts, who also executive produced the FX series, previously told PEOPLE. “She confided in him and felt that there was a trust [with Capote]. She felt seen and more connected to this human being than she’d ever connected to anyone, so it was something she couldn’t recover from.”

Kate Winslet in ‘The Regime’.Miya Mizuno/HBO

Miya Mizuno/HBO

Winslet, 49, was nominated for her role as Chancellor Elena Vernham inThe Regime.

DuringThe RegimeFYCpanel event in Los Angeles on June 5, the actress discussed the process of coming up with her character’s unique voice and accent. In the show, which also stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne,Andrea Riseborough,Martha PlimptonandHugh Grant, Winslet plays Vernham, the corrupt authoritarian ruler of a fictional European country whose controversial decisions incite a civil war.

“It never made sense to me to speak like myself,” she said, adding, “I didn’t quite know what that meant, or what I was going to do about it. I just knew that I had to find something that didn’t feel too close to me.”

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