About Odessa Young
Odessa Young 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, 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. For her role in The Daughter, Young attracted considerable critical acclaim and won Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2016 AACTA Awards. 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. She was cast in the title role after modifying her take on the character to seem less mature than in her first audition. In 2018, she won Best Actress at the 5th annual Vancouver Web Series Festival for her role in the same series.
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