Odessa Young

Young grew up in Australia, where her mother is a writer and her father a musician.[4] She attended a performing arts high school in Sydney, taking part in theater productions.[5] She relocated from Sydney to Los Angeles, California, within two days of turning 18. Two years later, Young moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York.[6]

Odessa Young started acting professionally at the age of 11,[7] when she was cast through her drama teacher in the Australian children's show My Place.[7] She acted in television series such as Wonderland and Tricky Business before making the transition into feature film work.[8]

In 2015, she co-starred in the film The Daughter with Geoffrey Rush and Sam Neill.[9][10] She was cast as "the daughter" after modifying her take on the character to seem less mature than in her first audition.[11] Also in 2015, she acted alongside Radha Mitchell in Looking for Grace, where she played the titular role.[12][13] Later that year, she was dubbed "Australia's brightest rising star" by Elle Magazine.[14] For her role in The Daughter, Young attracted considerable critical acclaim[15] and won Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2016 AACTA Awards.[16] Her performance in The Daughter also earned her an award for Best Actress from the Australian Film Critics Association.[17]

In 2016, she was in final negotiations to play the female lead in When The Street Lights Go On on Hulu.[18]

In 2017, Young starred as Genevieve in the web series High Life; for her performance, she won an IAWTV Award for Best Lead Actress – Drama.[19] In 2018, she won Best Actress at the 5th annual Vancouver Web Series Festival for her role in the series.[20]

In 2018, she was in the film Assassination Nation, and also the film A Million Little Pieces.[4] Also in 2018, she made her off-Broadway debut in Days of Rage at the Tony Kiser Theater, where she plays the radical Quinn in 1969.[5]

She was cast in The Stand miniseries in 2019.[21] With the Stand, there were four shooting days before lockdown in Vancouver, with shooting picking up again later.[6] With the miniseries released in 2020, she plays Frannie, with a "new coda co-written by King himself" that gives her a different portrayal than the book[22] in the final episode.[23]

In 2020, Young was cast as a hostess in the HBO Max television series Tokyo Vice, to be directed by Michael Mann and written by J. T. Rogers. She was replaced by Rachel Keller[24][25] when she pulled out of the production over scheduling conflicts[26] related to the COVID-19 pandemic.[27] In the June 2020 film Shirley, Young plays Rose,[3] a newly married young woman living in the same house as Shirley Jackson.[28] Vogue named her one of six actors to watch in 2021.[29] For 2021, she was cast in the show Mothering Sunday.[29]

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