Birth Name: Odessa Young
Birth Date: 1998-01-11
Birth Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Details
Alternate Names: 오데사 영, ادسا یانگ, اودسا یانگ, オデッサ ヤング
Physical Characteristics: N/A
Career
First Appearances: - Bloomers (2013) as Stella
Most Important Roles: - The Order (2024) as Zillah Craig
- Manodrome (2023) as Sal
- Blood Pulls a Gun (2014) as Alice
- Bloomers (2013) as Stella
- Face Your Fears: Thriller Shorts for Adults (2020) as Hester (segment HighWay)
- Highway (2016) as Hester
- The Daughter (2015) as Hedvig
- My First Film (2024) as Vita
- Bonnie (2022) as Self
Career Highlights: - The Order (2024)
- Manodrome (2023)
- Blood Pulls a Gun (2014)
- Bloomers (2013)
- Face Your Fears: Thriller Shorts for Adults (2020)
- Highway (2016)
- The Daughter (2015)
- My First Film (2024)
- Bonnie (2022)
Awards
Awards: - Won FCCA Award - Best Actress (2017)
- Nominated for 1 Pauline Kael Breakout Award (2020)
- Won Discovery Award (2021)
- Won IAWTV Award - Best Female Performance in a Drama (2017)
- Won Festival Award - Best Actress (2018)
- Won International Feature Award - Special Mention (2015)
- Won AFCA Award - Best Actress (2017)
- Won Sirius Award (2015)
- Won AACTA Award - Best Lead Actress (2016)
- Won Jury Award - Best Actress (2017)
- Won Jury Award - Best Actress (2017)
- Nominated for 1 HCA Award - Best Supporting Actress (2020)
- Nominated for 1 Septimius Award - Best Oceanian Actress (2025)
Full Biography
Odessa Young (born January 11, 1998) is an Australian actress. She is known for her roles in the 2015 feature films Looking for Grace and The Daughter, the latter of which earned her an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She won further accolades for her performance in the web series High Life in 2017. 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. In 2020, she starred as Frannie in the post-apocalypse miniseries The Stand, based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Stephen King, and opposite Elisabeth Moss in Shirley (2020), a film about the novelist Shirley Jackson.
