The two-time Oscar winner landed her first Emmy Award after previously being nominated as a director ("Orange Is the New Black") and producer ("The Baby Dance").

At the 76th Emmy Awards on Sunday, Foster won the first Emmy in her long-running career, giving a moving acceptance speech after winning best lead actress in a limited or anthology series for her role as Chief Liz Danvers in " True Detective: Night Country ."

Jodie Foster has received an Emmy for best lead actress in a limited series for her role as Liz Danvers in True Detective: Night Country. This marks the first time Foster has received an Emmy after being nominated three times prior.

The veteran actor won the Emmy for lead actress in a limited series for her performance as Liz Danvers, an acid-tongued police chief, in the fourth installment of HBO's anthology series.

Christopher Polk “That’s just the message, which is ‘love and work equals art,” noted Jodie Foster shortly after winning her very first Emmy Award tonight. Honored for pla

Inside Man, directed by Spike Lee, stars Clive Owen as a robber holding hostages in a Wall Street bank, Denzel Washington (pictured) as the cop on the case, and Foster as a fixer hired by bank founder Christopher Plummer to retrieve something more valuable than money from the institution. It all turns out to have something to do with the Holocaust.

Spread the loveJodie Foster’s powerful performance in “True Detective: Night Country” has earned her the coveted Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. During her acceptance speech,

Actor Jodie Foster won her maiden Emmy for her role in the limited series True Detective: Night Country from the TV Academy on Sunday night. She played detective Liz Danvers in the anthology crime drama's fourth season.