Odessa Young
Biography
Odessa Young is an Australian actress from Sydney who began working professionally at 11, when a drama teacher cast her in the children's show My Place. She built up credits on Australian television, among them Wonderland and the Nine Network drama Tricky Business, before moving into films. She won the AACTA Award for best lead actress for The Daughter (2015), acting opposite Geoffrey Rush and Sam Neill, and took the title part in Looking for Grace. Her later movies include Assassination Nation (2018), A Million Little Pieces (2019), Shirley (2020), Mothering Sunday (2021) and Manodrome (2023). On television she played Frannie in the miniseries The Stand, and she led the web series High Life, earning a best lead actress award for it. She also worked off-Broadway, in Days of Rage and in The Mother at the Atlantic Theater Company. In 2021 Vogue put her on a list of six actors to watch.
28years old
Turns 29 on January 11in 60 days
- Born Sydney
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
Movie Career
- Films
- 12
- Career span
- 10 years2015 to 2025
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First role
Young began acting professionally at 11. Her drama teacher helped her get cast in the Australian children's show My Place.
Getting ready for a role
In 2015, Young co-starred in The Daughter alongside Geoffrey Rush and Sam Neill. She landed the title role after reworking her portrayal so the character came across as less mature than in her first audition.
First role
In 2018, Young played Quinn, a radical in 1969, in Days of Rage at the Tony Kiser Theater, which was her off-Broadway debut.
Odessa Young movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Four actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Rosemarie DeWitt's page
Marc Maron's page
Philip Ettinger's page
Zia Anger's page
Box office
What Odessa Young's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$57.6 million
8 of the 12 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 12 films: 8 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 2 streaming, short cinema run; 1 figure not found.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 2Streaming, short cinema run
- 1Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$45M78.5% of the total
- 2$3.6M6.3% of the total
- 3$2.9M5.0% of the total
- 4$2.3M3.9% of the total
- 5$2.0M3.4% of the total
- 6$1.4M2.3% of the total
- 7$230K0.4% of the total
- 8$10K0.0% of the total
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