One of the greatest actors of modern times, Jodie Foster could not be left off this list. She began her career at just three years old as a child model and it didn't take long until she had broken into the film industry. From the age of six she appeared in various television shows and had pretty steady work. However, she didn't get her first real big break until she was 14 years old. She played a teenage sex worker in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver in 1976, and the rest is history. She even received an Academy Award nomination for the role.
It wasn't too long until she actually won an Oscar. In 1988 she took home the award for Best Actress for her role as a rape survivor in The Accused. Three years later, she won her second Academy Award for her iconic role as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.