Actress Jodie Foster marries girlfriend Alexandra Hedison in small ceremony

 
Marriage: Jodie Foster (Picture: Reuters)
David Gardner24 April 2014

Jodie Foster has quietly married her girlfriend, the Oscar-winning actress’s spokeswoman confirmed last night.

The Silence of the Lambs star wed Alexandra Hedison, a photographer she’s been dating for less than a year.

The nuptials were over the weekend but no further details were released.

Miss Hedison, 44, is an ex-girlfriend of US daytime chat show host and comic Ellen DeGeneres. They split in 2004 after three years together.

"Jodie and Alexandra are totally in love," said a Hollywood source. "And they just wanted to make it official."

Earlier this year, they were spotted in Beverly Hills wearing identical gold bands.

But fiercely private Miss Foster, 51, has refused to make any public comment on the relationship.

The actress had been in a 20 year relationship with female producer Cydney Bernard. They split in 2008 but have two sons together: Charles, aged 15, and Kit, aged 13.

Miss Foster came out as gay during an acceptance speech at the Golden Globe Awards in 2013.

"This is not going to be a big coming-out speech tonight because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the stone age – in those very quaint days when a fragile girl would open up to trusted friends and family and coworkers and then gradually proudly to everyone who knew her," she said during the awards show.

She never used the words ‘lesbian’ or ‘gay’ in the speech but did smoothly name-check former partner Bernard, calling her "one of the deepest loves of my life, my heroic co-parent, my ex-partner in love but righteous soul sister in life."

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