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Jodie Foster, an American actress who was born and raised in Los Angeles in an non-French-speaking family, is nonetheless quite fluent in French. At age 9, she started attending the Lycée Français de Los Angeles, a private school devoted to bilingual education. Her fluency has allowed her to appear in several French-language movies over the years, including Moi, Fleur bleue (1977) in her mid-teens and Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004) in her forties. She also often records her own French dialogue dubbing tracks for her English-language movies.