Jodie Foster, the actress and director has married her girlfriend, Alexandra Hedison. The marriage was confirmed by a publicist acting on behalf of the actress to a US showbusiness website. Ms Foster, 51, who had been reluctant to comment on her private life, acknowledged she was gay at the Golden Globes awards last year.
The actress who had two children by IVF had separated from her previous partner, Cydney Bernard, a film producer. In her Golden Globes speech, she paid tribute to Bernard, whom she described as her “ex-partner in love”. Foster and Hedison had been seen in each other’s company in Los Angeles on a number of occasions, fuelling speculation about their relationship.
It is understood the pair finally married over the weekend, although the location has not been disclosed. Ms Hedison, 44, previously had a relationship with the US TV personality, Ellen De Generes. In addition to Hedison’s photography career, which has included showings New York and Los Angeles, she, too, has acted. Most prominently she played Dylan Moreland on Showtime’s lesbian focused drama The L Word for three seasons. In the early 2000s, Hedison was dating Ellen DeGeneres, before they broke things off in 2004.
After years of dodging questions about her sexuality, Foster addressed them somewhat at last year’s Golden Globes Awards, when she thanked her ex-girlfriend Cydney Bernard in her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. "I guess I have a sudden urge to say something that I’ve never been able to air in public that I’m a little nervous about," Foster said. "I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age, in those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and family and co-workers and then gradually, proudly to everyone who knew her, to everyone she actually met."
Reports of Foster and Hedison’s relationship began circulating when the couple was photographed together last summer on at Fox Studios in Los Angeles and at dinner with friends a few days later, according to USA Today. They also attended the opening of Alan Cumming’s one-man show Macbeth in New York last year but were not photographed.