Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) has long been interested in contact with faraway lands, a love fostered in her childhood by her father, Ted Arroway (David Morse), who dies when she was ...

Jodie Foster (ne Alicia Christian Foster ... She is also well-known for her appearances in the popular films Maverick (1994), Contact (1997) and Panic Room (2002) Foster received the honorary ...