She’s added to her collection. Jodie Foster has won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Limited Series for her turn as police chief Liz Danvers in “True Detective: Night Country.” Check out the full list of 2025 Golden Globe winners here.
When she won the 2024 Primetime Emmy for the role back in September, Foster became the first actor from any of the “True Detective” installments to win an Emmy. The Globe win adds to an extraordinary awards shelf for the 62-year-old Hollywood legend, including two Academy Awards for Best Actress (for “The Accused” and “The Silence of the Lambs”) and three previous competitive Globes wins (for the films for which she won the Oscar, as well as Best Supporting Actress for “The Mauritanian”) and the Globes’ honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Foster’s Chief Danvers is maybe the most memorable lead character in a “True Detective” installment yet (and with some real competition given that Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn, and Mahershala Ali have all led the anthology series). Here, she leads the local police force in Ennis, Alaska, a tiny town so far north that it’s shrouded in darkness for weeks at a time around the winter solstice — the sun never rising at all. And of course, possibly supernatural happenings take place, in addition to some grimy and gritty murders. Foster led an ensemble that also included Kali Reis, Fiona Shaw, John Hawkes, and Christopher Eccleston.
“Night Country” also had a new showrunner: Issa López, who IndieWire celebrated at IndieWire Honors last June. Foster has been unabashed in praising López, even going so far as to tell IndieWire in advance of Honors, “I would follow her to the ends of the Earth, because she has that confidence in herself, but also is flexible.”
Foster added of her showrunner, “As each person came aboard, each one of them just started doing the best work of their lives. The whole thing was kind of magical, to tell you the truth. That happens when you have a piece of material that’s grounded in something that really strikes the core of your humanness. I think the only other time that I’ve had this experience was on ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’”
López has been confirmed by HBO to be developing “True Detective” Season 5, though it’s unclear if Foster will return, as each season typically has a new cast.
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