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Odessa Young
Odessa Young (born 1997 or 1998) is an Australian actress. She gained prominence through her roles in the Nine Network drama Tricky Business (2012) and the 2015 films Looking for Grace and The Daughter, the latter earning her an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her films since include Assassination Nation, A Million Little Pieces (both 2018), Shirley (2020), Mothering Sunday (2021) and Manodrome (2023). On television she starred in the miniseries The Stand (2020). Young made her off-Broadway debut in Days of Rage.
Odessa Young was born in 1997 or 1998. She grew up in Australia, where her father Adam is a musician and her mother, Rachel, a writer.
She started taking after-school acting classes at 11 years old. She attended a performing arts high school in Sydney, taking part in theatre productions. Within two days of turning 18, she relocated from Sydney to Los Angeles, California. Two years later, Young moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York.
Odessa Young started acting professionally at the age of 11, when she was cast through her drama teacher in the Australian children's show My Place. She acted in television series such as Wonderland and Tricky Business before making the transition into feature film work.
In 2015 she co-starred in the film The Daughter with Geoffrey Rush and Sam Neill. She was cast in the title role after modifying her take on the character to seem less mature than in her first audition. Also in 2015, she acted alongside Radha Mitchell in Looking for Grace, where she played the titular role. Later that year, she was dubbed "Australia's brightest rising star" by Elle Magazine. For her role in The Daughter, Young attracted considerable critical acclaim and won Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2016 AACTA Awards. Her performance in The Daughter also earned her an award for Best Actress from the Australian Film Critics Association.
In 2016 she was in final negotiations to play the female lead in When the Street Lights Go On on Hulu.
In 2017 Young starred as Genevieve in the web series High Life; for her performance, she won an International Academy of Web Television Award for Best Lead Actress – Drama. In 2018, she won Best Actress at the 5th annual Vancouver Web Series Festival for her role in the same series.
In 2018 she starred in the films Assassination Nation and A Million Little Pieces. That year, she also made her off-Broadway debut in Days of Rage at the Tony Kiser Theater, where she plays the radical Quinn in 1969. In winter 2019 she starred in The Mother at Atlantic Theater Company off-broadway as Emily.
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Odessa Young
Odessa Young (born 1997 or 1998) is an Australian actress. She gained prominence through her roles in the Nine Network drama Tricky Business (2012) and the 2015 films Looking for Grace and The Daughter, the latter earning her an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her films since include Assassination Nation, A Million Little Pieces (both 2018), Shirley (2020), Mothering Sunday (2021) and Manodrome (2023). On television she starred in the miniseries The Stand (2020). Young made her off-Broadway debut in Days of Rage.
Odessa Young was born in 1997 or 1998. She grew up in Australia, where her father Adam is a musician and her mother, Rachel, a writer.
She started taking after-school acting classes at 11 years old. She attended a performing arts high school in Sydney, taking part in theatre productions. Within two days of turning 18, she relocated from Sydney to Los Angeles, California. Two years later, Young moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York.
Odessa Young started acting professionally at the age of 11, when she was cast through her drama teacher in the Australian children's show My Place. She acted in television series such as Wonderland and Tricky Business before making the transition into feature film work.
In 2015 she co-starred in the film The Daughter with Geoffrey Rush and Sam Neill. She was cast in the title role after modifying her take on the character to seem less mature than in her first audition. Also in 2015, she acted alongside Radha Mitchell in Looking for Grace, where she played the titular role. Later that year, she was dubbed "Australia's brightest rising star" by Elle Magazine. For her role in The Daughter, Young attracted considerable critical acclaim and won Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2016 AACTA Awards. Her performance in The Daughter also earned her an award for Best Actress from the Australian Film Critics Association.
In 2016 she was in final negotiations to play the female lead in When the Street Lights Go On on Hulu.
In 2017 Young starred as Genevieve in the web series High Life; for her performance, she won an International Academy of Web Television Award for Best Lead Actress – Drama. In 2018, she won Best Actress at the 5th annual Vancouver Web Series Festival for her role in the same series.
In 2018 she starred in the films Assassination Nation and A Million Little Pieces. That year, she also made her off-Broadway debut in Days of Rage at the Tony Kiser Theater, where she plays the radical Quinn in 1969. In winter 2019 she starred in The Mother at Atlantic Theater Company off-broadway as Emily.