--- description: The wedding comes a year after the actress gave an acceptance speech at the Golden Globes in which she criticized the culture of celebrities ostentatiously coming out of the closet title: Jodie Foster Just Got Married image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Jodie Foster Weds Girlfriend  by [Denver Nicks](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 23, 2014 8:41 PM CUT  by [Denver Nicks](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 23, 2014 8:41 PM CUT Academy Award winner Jodie Foster over the weekend [married](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jodie-foster-marries-girlfriend-alexandra-698541 "undefined") her girlfriend of a year, Alexandra Hedison. Foster, 51, began dating Hedison last summer, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Hedison, a photographer, was formerly in a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres until 2004. Little more than a year ago, Foster gave a news-making speech in accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes that many saw as her public coming out. “I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age,” she said, “But now I’m told, apparently, that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show….No, I’m sorry, that’s just not me. It never was and it never will be.” \[[_Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jodie-foster-marries-girlfriend-alexandra-698541 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/74463/jodie-foster-marries-girlfriend-alexandra-hedison/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/74463/jodie-foster-marries-girlfriend-alexandra-hedison/"},"headline":"Jodie Foster Weds Girlfriend","datePublished":"2014-04-23T20:41:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:28:05.002Z","description":"The wedding comes a year after the actress gave an acceptance speech at the Golden Globes in which she criticized the culture of celebrities ostentatiously coming out of the closet","url":"https://time.com/74463/jodie-foster-marries-girlfriend-alexandra-hedison/","keywords":["celebrities","Weddings"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/74463/jodie-foster-marries-girlfriend-alexandra-hedison/","name":"Jodie Foster Weds Girlfriend"}}]}] ```