Odessa Young is an Australian actress, who is known for her roles in the 2015 feature films «Looking for Grace» and «The Daughter».
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- Odessa Young was born on 11th of January 1998.
- She 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.
- Young grew up in Australia, where her father is a musician and her mother a writer.
- 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 as “the daughter” 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.
- 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.
- Released in 2020, the series features Young as Frannie, with a “new coda co-written by King himself” that gives her a different portrayal than the book in the final episode.
- 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 subsequently replaced by Rachel Keller, when she pulled out of the production over scheduling conflicts related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- In the 2020 film Shirley, Young plays Rose, a newly married young woman living in the same house as Shirley Jackson.
- In 2020, Odessa Young participated in Acting for a Cause, a live classic play and screenplay reading series created, directed and produced by Brando Crawford.
- Young played Lady Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
- The reading raised funds for non-profit charities including Mount Sinai Medical Center.
- Vogue named her one of six actors to watch in 2021.[31] That year, she was also cast in the British film