She’s added to her assortment. Jodie Foster has gained the Golden Globe for Greatest Actress in a Restricted Sequence for her flip as police chief Liz Danvers in “True Detective: Night time Nation.” Try the total record of 2025 Golden Globe winners right here.
When she gained the 2024 Primetime Emmy for the function again in September, Foster grew to become the primary actor from any of the “True Detective” installments to win an Emmy. The Globe win provides to a unprecedented awards shelf for the 62-year-old Hollywood legend, together with two Academy Awards for Greatest Actress (for “The Accused” and “The Silence of the Lambs”) and three earlier aggressive Globes wins (for the movies for which she gained the Oscar, in addition to Greatest Supporting Actress for “The Mauritanian”) and the Globes’ honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Foster’s Chief Danvers is perhaps essentially the most memorable lead character in a “True Detective” installment but (and with some actual competitors on condition that Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn, and Mahershala Ali have all led the anthology sequence). Right here, she leads the native police pressure in Ennis, Alaska, a tiny city thus far north that it’s shrouded in darkness for weeks at a time across the winter solstice — the solar by no means rising in any respect. And naturally, presumably supernatural happenings happen, along with some dirty and gritty murders. Foster led an ensemble that additionally included Kali Reis, Fiona Shaw, John Hawkes, and Christopher Eccleston.
“Night time Nation” additionally had a brand new showrunner: Issa López, who IndieWire celebrated at IndieWire Honors final June. Foster has been unabashed in praising López, even going as far as to inform IndieWire prematurely of Honors, “I’d observe her to the ends of the Earth, as a result of she has that confidence in herself, but in addition is versatile.”
Foster added of her showrunner, “As every particular person got here aboard, every one in all them simply began doing the most effective work of their lives. The entire thing was type of magical, to inform you the reality. That occurs when you have got a bit of fabric that’s grounded in one thing that actually strikes the core of your humanness. I believe the one different time that I’ve had this expertise was on ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’”
López has been confirmed by HBO to be growing “True Detective” Season 5, although it’s unclear if Foster will return, as every season sometimes has a brand new solid.
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