Jodie Foster's Graduation Rap. May 16, 2006 / 10:20 AM EDT / AP ... She earned laughs from the graduates by taking pictures of them from the podium and then by recalling her own years at Yale.

Foster, who graduated from Ivy League rival Yale University in 1985, received an honorary doctor of arts degree. She earned laughs from the graduates by taking pictures of them from the podium and ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Jodie Foster. Jodie Foster wasn’t just one of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ’s brightest mentees when he taught at Yale — she was a voluntary babysitter for his kids, too.

She was in college at Yale when an obsessed fan, John Hinckley Jr., said he attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan to get Foster's attention. She was dragged into history through no fault of her own.