Jodie Foster

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This page is locked, if you'd like to comment on it, please email me.  I am having a hard time finding biographical details on her mother.  Some details are repeated many times in various sources, but other details, that one would expect to find, are just missing.  If you have details on her mother, that I do not have, please let me know.

<table><tr><td>Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster was born 19 Nov 1962 in Los Angeles County, California, the youngest daughter of four children born to Lucius Fisher Foster III and his wife Evelyn Ella "Brandy" Almond. Her father, was an Air Force colonel who later became a real-estate agent.  Lucius already had three children with a previous wife when he met Brandy in 1954 and married her impetuously in Tijuana. Lucius and Brandy had been divorced for some time before she was born.  Her brother Buddy explains Jodie's conception as the result of a brief re-encounter between their parents some time after the divorce. Jodie's mother supported the family by working for a film producer, and later in public relations.  Both Jodie's parents briefly married other people.

*[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451195612?ie=UTF8&tag=countyh-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0451195612 'Foster Child:A Biography of Jodie Foster'], by [her brother] Buddy Foster with Leon Wagener ISBN 0525941436 [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36292888&referer=one_hit worldcat entry]

*[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,287857,00.html "Foster Child"], a review in Entertainment Weekly, 16 May 1997

*[http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=geolarson2&id=I144459 "An Extended Family"], by George Larson II, geolarson2@gmail.com, updated 8 Feb 2008, hosted at the Ancestry World Tree Project, pedigree-view

Lucius Fisher Foster III was born about 1922/3 in Colorado (possibly in Denver), the son of Lucius Foster and his wife Constance Richardson.  [http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3041169&id=I0162 This entry] in the Ancestry World Tree claims his parents married in Denver.  His mother remarried in 1928/9 to Leslie B Irwin, an investment securities salesman.  Robert Battle states that Leslie's middle name was "Bessel".  An article in the magazine ''She Australia'' [http://www.geocities.com/jodiefosterph/she050198.html excepted here] states that "Lt Col Lucius Fisher Foster III, [was] a former [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain Battle of Britain] fighter (this battle fought 10 July 1940 – 31 October 1940), and one of the most highly decorated fliers in the US airforce."  This last fact is doubtful and needs firm evidence.  Such an event would have been widely published and I'm just not finding that.  Jodie Foster is quoted in that article stating that she has only met her father about three times.

In 1946, "Lucius Fisher Foster" is shown in the Voter's Registration living at the same Los Angeles address as his mother Constance.  In October 1952, Lucius was living in Boise, Idado since he gave this as his home address when he was then returning from Manila. This might have been where he was living, when [http://www.geocities.com/jodiefosterph/us050800.html this article] states that Lucius "...already had three kids from a previous marriage.  In 1954, he met a pretty young woman named Evelyn "Brandy" Almond at a fencing club and married her impetuously during a trip to Tijuana, Mexico."

===Primary Sources for 2===

*[http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/4thfg.php 8th Air Force Fighter Group] : "41-6186 P-47C 334 QP-        Crash-landed 29 Jan 1943 - Lt. Lucius F Foster (336 FS)"

*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7488&iid=NYT715_7012-0442&fn=Lucius+F&ln=Foster&st=r&ssrc=&pid=3020522452 ''New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957''] showing : "Restricted Personnel Roster, ''Aquitania'', 4 Oct 1945, For Reception Station Fort McArthur, California.  Lucius F Foster III, Capt, 532 S Arden Blvd, Los Angeles, Calif." While a footnote on this document states : "Capt Lucius F Foster... AC is designated Officer in charge and Custodian of Records for Reception Sta Gp RE 6047-A-20, from present station until relieved by competent auth in the U.S."  Turning to page one of this roster we see [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/View.aspx?dbid=7488&path=1945.10.04.Aquitania.1&cr=1&sid=&gskw=Lucius+F+Foster here] that they were sailing out of Southampton, England leaving 28 Sep 1945

**[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=1249&ti=0&iid=losangelescounty_68-0174&rc=598,715,649,729;663,714,715,729&fn=Lucius&ln=Foster&st=d&ssrc=&pid=3112417034 Los Angeles City, 1946] showing: "Lucius Fisher Foster at 532 S Arden Blvd, Democrat"

**[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=1249&ti=0&iid=losangelescounty_74-0353&rc=686,703,737,717;757,703,810,717&fn=Lucius&ln=Foster&st=d&ssrc=&pid=3553612101 Los Angeles City, 1948] showing : "Lucius F Foster, 534 Lillian way, Democrat"

*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=7683&iid=NEWS-CA-VA_NE.1960_11_29_0008&rc=1683,2108,1794,2145;1813,2108,1943,2145&fn=&ln=Record+Lucius+Foster&st=d&ssrc=&pid=503706632 "Owners of 4 Lots Protest City Bid to Change Zoning"], ''Valley News'' (Van Nuys, CA), 29 Nov 29 1960 : "Lucius Foster, representing owners of three of the lots, argued multiple dwellings would be the best usage for the property:<blockquote>'We have seen the drift of industry to the West Valley, employing a large amount of electronics personnel.  It is hard for many of these people to maintain their own homes since many only stay here for three to five years.  Homes are expensive in this area &mdash; the Woodland Hills foreclosure rate is the fifth highest in Southern California.  We would suffer a considerable loss of this property if it should be rezoned to R-1.  It is close to the freeway and well suited for apartment development."</blockquote>

*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=1144&iid=vrmusaca1960_0041_07_k-0101&fn=Lucius+F&ln=Foster&st=r&ssrc=&pid=2110824 California Marriage Index 1960-85] showing : "Lucius F Foster 45, to Patricia A Brennan 32 on 23 Nov 1967 Los Angeles City"

Evelyn Ella "Brandy" Almond was born about 1927/8 ("age 41" Aug 1969).  Robert Battle reports that Evelyn was born in the Bronx, [[New York]]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=6J8xDWDqOkEC&pg=RA2-PA184&lpg=RA2-PA184&dq=lucius+foster+almond&source=web&ots=vNtTZJ4xAR&sig=2OuCeSaHWEq9D6ImQVB2h-PBMak Here] the ''International Who's Who of Women'' calls Jodie's mother "Eileen".  An article in ''Rolling Stone'' states that Brandy was "...Born in the Bronx to a strict German family, [and] raised in Rockford, Illinois."  Jodie Foster, in that same article, speaking of her mother states: "She's an only child, and she doesn't like to be around people that much." A site reader informs me that: "Brandy went to Roosevelt Jr High...her family had something to do with Almond Freightways...she may have gone to Rockford West High School."  Evidently this company is today called "Almond Freight Line" in Rockford, Illinois.

Sometime before 1952, she moved to the Los Angeles area, where she met Lucius Foster.  [http://www.geocities.com/jodiefosterph/us050800.html This article] states that Lucius "...already had three kids from a previous marriage.  In 1954, he met a pretty young woman named Evelyn "Brandy" Almond at a fencing club and married her impetuously during a trip to Tijuana, Mexico."  They had four children, all born in Los Angeles County, the oldest being Lucinda Courtney Foster born 26 Oct 1954, and the youngest being the actress Jodie Foster.  They divorced, both remarrying other people and then divorcing, in the Los Angeles area.  It has been stated that Brandy was a film producer, although it's also possible that she merely worked for a film producer.  These connections possibly explain how both Buddy and Jodie became child stars.

==Lucius Fisher Foster II==

Lucius Fisher Foster II was born 30 Oct 1898 in Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado to Alexis C Foster, a native of Tennessee and his wife Alice from Illinois. It's possible that he is that same Lucius F Foster who is listed [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=cowwi%2c&rank=0&gsfn=Lucius&gsln=Foster&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&ct=12467 here] as "Chief Q M [quarter-master], U S Navy, Denver".  About 1920 or 1921, possibly in Denver, he married Constance Marie Robertson, a native of Tennessee, whose family had moved to Denver about 1909.

 

By 1926, Lucius and Constance had moved to Chicago.  They had two children Courteney and Lucius, but either they divorced or he died by 1929. In the 1930 census, while she appears in the Los Angeles census in 1930 re-married, with her children listed as her new husband's step-children; he appears with a new wife and a 10-month-old baby, and living in Richmond, Virginia.

 

Lucius moved to the New York area where a "Lucius F Foster" is listed as a real estate agent.  When his father Alexis died in 1945, Lucius was listed surviving him, and then a member of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Production_Board WPB] in Washington.

 

 

 

 

==Constance Marie Robertson==

Constance Robertson was born about 1902/3 in Tennessee, the daughter of Samuel Richard Robertson by his wife Martha Elizabeth Hughes. By about 1909, the family had moved to Denver, Colorado, where they appear in the 1910 Census and where her father was admitted to the bar in 1913. About 1919/21 she married Lucius Foster, probably in Denver, and they had two surviving children: Courtenay and Lucius Jr both born in Colorado.  They were probably married by the time of the 1920 census, as she does not appear that year in the household of her parents in Denver.  By 1926, she and Lucius are living in Chicago.

Constance and Leslie were divorced by 1936 when he appears as "single" on a ship manifest.  Constance married lastly to a Mr Gerst, he is possible the Louis Gerst who appears living with her in the 1952 Voter Registration Rolls. She appears as "Mrs Constance Gerst, but her husband if he is living with her, is not registered in the Voter's Registration in 1944 living at 532 S Arden Blvd.  Note that this is the same address used above by her son Lucius in 1946.  By 1952 she is appearing at 805 S Windsor Blvd with Louis Gerst at the same address.  A Louis Gerst born 1894 NY, died 1959 Los Angeles appear in the California Death Index, which is possibly him.

 

Constance died 25 Oct 1955 in Los Angeles County as "Mrs Constance Gerst".

*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=1249&ti=0&iid=losangelescounty_62-0622&rc=975,1216,1017,1231;1078,1216,1161,1232&fn=Constance&ln=gerst&st=d&ssrc=&pid=2724438002 ''California Voter Registrations, 1900-1968''] showing :

**"Los Angeles City, 1944, Mrs Constance Gerst, 532 S Arden Blvd, manufacturer, D[emocrat]"

**"Los Angeles City, 1952, Mrs Constance R Gerst, 805 S Windsor Blvd, R[epublican]; also same address Louis Gerst, R[epublican]"

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