Jodie Foster has always seemed impossibly cool. Now, at 61, she is having another moment. Foster was nominated for a Golden Globe for best supporting actress (and is expected to be nominated for an Oscar) for last year’s Nyad, in which she played Bonnie Stoll, the best friend of long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad. And in the fourth season of HBO’s True Detective, she stars as Liz Danvers, a police chief battling her demons and the elements in Alaska. The reviews are comparing it to her acclaimed role as the F.B.I.-agent-trainee Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs (for which she won her second Oscar for Best Actress, in 1991; her first was for 1988’s The Accused). “I feel like I will be as proud of [True Detective] as anything I’ve ever done,” Foster says. “It’s some of the best work of my life. Just because you’re in a new demographic doesn’t mean you’re through, and it doesn’t mean you don’t have complexity. Quite the opposite.” —Nancy Jo Sales