Odessa Young

Odessa Young (born 11 January 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. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Odessa Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Giant (2019)

A teenager's small town life is changed forever when a series of murders begin on the same night that her missing boyfriend suddenly reappears.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Raboy
CAST:  Odessa Young  •  Ben Schnetzer  •  Jack Kilmer  •  Madelyn Cline

A teenager's small town life is changed forever when a series of murders begin on the same night that her missing boyfriend suddenly reappears.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Raboy
CAST:  Odessa Young  •  Ben Schnetzer  •  Jack Kilmer  •  Madelyn Cline

Blood Pulls a Gun (2014)

A teenage girl gets a keyhole look into a dangerous and mysterious world when a tattooed stranger checks into her roadside motel.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ben Briand
CAST:  Odessa Young  •  Josh McConville  •  Tess Haubrich  •  Ben Ingram

A teenage girl gets a keyhole look into a dangerous and mysterious world when a tattooed stranger checks into her roadside motel.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ben Briand
CAST:  Odessa Young  •  Josh McConville  •  Tess Haubrich  •  Ben Ingram

Bloomers (2013)

When Stella realises she's the only girl in her class who doesn't have her period, she sets out to fast-track her way to womanhood through somewhat unconventional methods.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Corrie Chen
CAST:  Odessa Young  •  Ellie Gall  •  Luke Haberecht  •  Janet Wang

When Stella realises she's the only girl in her class who doesn't have her period, she sets out to fast-track her way to womanhood through somewhat unconventional methods.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Corrie Chen
CAST:  Odessa Young  •  Ellie Gall  •  Luke Haberecht  •  Janet Wang

The Daughter (2015)

In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now out of a job. As ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Simon Stone
CAST:  Geoffrey Rush  •  Ewen Leslie  •  Paul Schneider  •  Miranda Otto

In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now out of a job. As ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Simon Stone
CAST:  Geoffrey Rush  •  Ewen Leslie  •  Paul Schneider  •  Miranda Otto

Looking for Grace (2016)

When rebellious 16-year-old Grace takes off, her exasperated mum and dad enlist the help of a close-to-retirement detective, and begin the long drive from Perth out to the West Australian wheatbelt to try to find her. On the journey, the two must confront the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sue Brooks
CAST:  Radha Mitchell  •  Richard Roxburgh  •  Odessa Young  •  Terry Norris

When rebellious 16-year-old Grace takes off, her exasperated mum and dad enlist the help of a close-to-retirement detective, and begin the long drive from Perth out to the West Australian wheatbelt to try to find her. On the journey, the two must confront the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sue Brooks
CAST:  Radha Mitchell  •  Richard Roxburgh  •  Odessa Young  •  Terry Norris

Upside Down Feeling (2015)

Arthur, a young boy with a wild imagination, develops a preoccupation with death and disease and begins to explore mortality in the vivid images he sees in the movies and through a strange visitor from the past.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Eddie White
CAST:  Sol Spry  •  Odessa Young  •  Charles Mayer  •  Liam O'Sullivan

Arthur, a young boy with a wild imagination, develops a preoccupation with death and disease and begins to explore mortality in the vivid images he sees in the movies and through a strange visitor from the past.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Eddie White
CAST:  Sol Spry  •  Odessa Young  •  Charles Mayer  •  Liam O'Sullivan

Assassination Nation (2018)

After an anonymous hacker begins leaking the private data of thousands living in a small American town, the townspeople spiral into madness, with four high school seniors at the center of the maelstrom.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sam Levinson
CAST:  Odessa Young  •  Hari Nef  •  ABRA  •  Suki Waterhouse

After an anonymous hacker begins leaking the private data of thousands living in a small American town, the townspeople spiral into madness, with four high school seniors at the center of the maelstrom.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sam Levinson
CAST:  Odessa Young  •  Hari Nef  •  ABRA  •  Suki Waterhouse

Sweet Virginia (2017)

A former rodeo star, now a motel manager, meets a young man who is responsible for the violence that suddenly has seized his small town.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jamie M. Dagg
CAST:  Jon Bernthal  •  Christopher Abbott  •  Imogen Poots  •  Rosemarie DeWitt

A former rodeo star, now a motel manager, meets a young man who is responsible for the violence that suddenly has seized his small town.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jamie M. Dagg
CAST:  Jon Bernthal  •  Christopher Abbott  •  Imogen Poots  •  Rosemarie DeWitt

The Highway (2016)

A teenage hitchhiker traverses a lonely mountain highway and begins to pick a mysterious radio broadcast rife with ominous reports of the near future.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vanessa Gazy
CAST:  Odessa Young

A teenage hitchhiker traverses a lonely mountain highway and begins to pick a mysterious radio broadcast rife with ominous reports of the near future.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vanessa Gazy
CAST:  Odessa Young

Lou (2018)

Lou, a teenage tomboy in a small Californian town, idolizes her single father. When he has a date over one night and she is cast out of the house, Lou wanders to the outer reaches of town and into a new era of teenage identity.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Clara Balzary
CAST:  Sasha Frolova  •  Joaquin Phoenix  •  Odessa Young  •  Isabelle Albuquerque

Lou, a teenage tomboy in a small Californian town, idolizes her single father. When he has a date over one night and she is cast out of the house, Lou wanders to the outer reaches of town and into a new era of teenage identity.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Clara Balzary
CAST:  Sasha Frolova  •  Joaquin Phoenix  •  Odessa Young  •  Isabelle Albuquerque

Celeste (2018)

Celeste is a renowned opera diva who retired early for the man she loved to live on a crumbling and beautiful estate in the heart of a rainforest in Far North Queensland. Ten years after the tragic death of her husband, Mateos, in a boating accident, Celeste is set ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ben Hackworth
CAST:  Radha Mitchell  •  Thomas Cocquerel  •  Nadine Garner  •  Odessa Young

Celeste is a renowned opera diva who retired early for the man she loved to live on a crumbling and beautiful estate in the heart of a rainforest in Far North Queensland. Ten years after the tragic death of her husband, Mateos, in a boating accident, Celeste is set ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ben Hackworth
CAST:  Radha Mitchell  •  Thomas Cocquerel  •  Nadine Garner  •  Odessa Young

Tangles and Knots (2017)

Set in the height of summer in Sydney, Australia, the story follows a unique, intimate relationship between a mother, Michelle and her teenage daughter, Laura. They act more like girlfriends together than parent and child. This relationship becomes threatened when ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Renee Marie Petropoulos
CAST:  Leeanna Walsman  •  Odessa Young  •  Mitzi Ruhlmann  •  Toby Wallace

Set in the height of summer in Sydney, Australia, the story follows a unique, intimate relationship between a mother, Michelle and her teenage daughter, Laura. They act more like girlfriends together than parent and child. This relationship becomes threatened when ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Renee Marie Petropoulos
CAST:  Leeanna Walsman  •  Odessa Young  •  Mitzi Ruhlmann  •  Toby Wallace

The Professor (2018)

DramaticDepressingHeartbreakingCrude

A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak and a touch of madness.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wayne Roberts
CAST:  Johnny Depp  •  Zoey Deutch  •  Danny Huston  •  Rosemarie DeWitt

A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak and a touch of madness.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wayne Roberts
CAST:  Johnny Depp  •  Zoey Deutch  •  Danny Huston  •  Rosemarie DeWitt

A Million Little Pieces (2019)

DepressingHeartbreakingEmotionalTear-jerker

A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sam Taylor-Johnson
CAST:  Charlie Hunnam  •  Aaron Taylor-Johnson  •  Ryan Hurst  •  Billy Bob Thornton

A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sam Taylor-Johnson
CAST:  Charlie Hunnam  •  Aaron Taylor-Johnson  •  Ryan Hurst  •  Billy Bob Thornton

Shirley (2020)

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Josephine Decker
CAST:  Elisabeth Moss  •  Michael Stuhlbarg  •  Logan Lerman  •  Odessa Young

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Josephine Decker
CAST:  Elisabeth Moss  •  Michael Stuhlbarg  •  Logan Lerman  •  Odessa Young

And She Hisses (2020)

Two small-town lovers spend their winter drinking cheap wine, throwing darts and planning their escape to Florida. They keep forgetting the name of their favorite color “Verdigris”, a hypnotic green that penetrate the iris and only exist on the verge of its own ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Monica Lek
CAST:  Odessa Young  •  Michael Patrick Nicholson

Two small-town lovers spend their winter drinking cheap wine, throwing darts and planning their escape to Florida. They keep forgetting the name of their favorite color “Verdigris”, a hypnotic green that penetrate the iris and only exist on the verge of its own ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Monica Lek
CAST:  Odessa Young  •  Michael Patrick Nicholson

Mothering Sunday (2021)

On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul is the boy from the manor house ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Eva Husson
CAST:  Olivia Colman  •  Colin Firth  •  Josh O'Connor  •  Odessa Young

On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul is the boy from the manor house ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Eva Husson
CAST:  Olivia Colman  •  Colin Firth  •  Josh O'Connor  •  Odessa Young

The Man in the Woods (2020)

On a snowy night in 1963 Pennsylvania, a boarding school student goes missing in the woods. Her friends, a disgraced quarterback, a shunned ex-cop, and the headmaster's wife, agree to go search for her. As they do, they confront the lies, ghost stories, and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Noah Buschel
CAST:  Devin Druid  •  Quinn Shephard  •  Sam Waterston  •  Marin Ireland

On a snowy night in 1963 Pennsylvania, a boarding school student goes missing in the woods. Her friends, a disgraced quarterback, a shunned ex-cop, and the headmaster's wife, agree to go search for her. As they do, they confront the lies, ghost stories, and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Noah Buschel
CAST:  Devin Druid  •  Quinn Shephard  •  Sam Waterston  •  Marin Ireland

Manodrome (2023)

Ralphie is an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his repressed desires are awakened.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Trengove
CAST:  Jesse Eisenberg  •  Adrien Brody  •  Odessa Young  •  Sallieu Sesay

Ralphie is an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his repressed desires are awakened.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Trengove
CAST:  Jesse Eisenberg  •  Adrien Brody  •  Odessa Young  •  Sallieu Sesay

The Damned (2024)

A 19th-century widow is tasked with making an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a ship sinks off the coast of her impoverished Icelandic fishing village. Any attempt to rescue survivors risks further depleting the starving villagers’ supplies.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thordur Palsson
CAST:  Odessa Young  •  Joe Cole  •  Siobhan Finneran  •  Rory McCann

A 19th-century widow is tasked with making an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a ship sinks off the coast of her impoverished Icelandic fishing village. Any attempt to rescue survivors risks further depleting the starving villagers’ supplies.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thordur Palsson
CAST:  Odessa Young  •  Joe Cole  •  Siobhan Finneran  •  Rory McCann
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