Odessa Young

Acting

Odessa Young

Born 1998-01-11 · Sydney, Australia

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

Acting credits

The Order poster
6.6

A string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads veteran FBI agent Terry Husk into a white supremacist plot to overthrow the federal government.

The Order

2024

The Professor poster
6.8

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.

The Professor

2019

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere poster
6.6

Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

2025

Mothering Sunday poster
5.4

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 nearby, Jane's long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents' friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever.

Mothering Sunday

2021

Assassination Nation poster
6.2

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.

Assassination Nation

2018

The Damned poster
5.8

A 19th-century widow has to make an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a foreign ship sinks off the coast of her Icelandic fishing village.

The Damned

2025

Shirley poster
6.1

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

Shirley

2020

Bonnie poster
5.3

A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.

Bonnie

2022

The Liberation poster
NR

Rita is entranced by the mesmeric Leader and renounces her family to embrace the world of the enigmatic Harmonia commune. Her daughters Ella and Jo put everything on the line to infiltrate the cult and bring their mother home. Yet, once immersed in the commune, they find themselves inexorably drawn into the Leader’s labyrinthine web of psycho-spiritual manipulation.

The Liberation

2027

A Million Little Pieces poster
6.2

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

A Million Little Pieces

2019

Sweet Virginia poster
5.9

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.

Sweet Virginia

2017

Manodrome poster
5.1

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.

Manodrome

2023

The Daughter poster
6.3

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 Christian gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig, and father Walter, he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver’s family apart.

The Daughter

2015

Looking for Grace poster
5.6

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 realities of their changing relationship to one another, and to their daughter…

Looking for Grace

2016

Celeste poster
6.8

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 to return to the stage for her final performance. Her husband’s son Jack, still haunted by the past, arrives amidst the preparations for the performance and finds Celeste is as he remembered – beautiful, intoxicating and dangerous. Celeste wants Jack to stay at the estate, but needs him to perform one last request.

Celeste

2018

First Person: A Film About Love poster
NR

Stifled by her family life and the stranglehold of feminine expectations, a mother who has it all decides to pursue herself above all else and refuses to bend to society’s mores, even in the face of unspeakable tragedy.

First Person: A Film About Love

2026

No artwork available
NR

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.

Bloomers

2013

Highway poster
6.3

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

Highway

2016

My First Film poster
7.0

Vita revisits her first attempt at filmmaking 15 years prior. Shooting a semi-autobiographical film starring her friend Dina, Vita’s eager but inexperienced approach causes the production to spiral into chaos, leading to significant disruptions and a near-fatal accident.

My First Film

2024

The Man in the Woods poster
4.8

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 demonization that their idyllic school was built on.

The Man in the Woods

2020

Face Your Fears: Thriller Shorts for Adults poster
5.0

A collection of four award-winning psychological thrillers full of surreal surprises and mysterious atmosphere. A girl hitchhiking on a deserted road has a strange encounter, two brothers fight to survive a dystopian world, a Czech girl is on the run with a bag of money and a teenager in a mental health clinic makes a strange new friend who has nightmares. Be prepared to face the uncanny.

Face Your Fears: Thriller Shorts for Adults

2020

Lou poster
4.9

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.

Lou

2018

The Giant poster
3.3

When her first love suddenly reappears in her small Georgia town the same night that a series of killings begin, Charlotte is forced to reconcile her past and present, her traumas and nostalgia, as it becomes increasingly clear that her life is at risk in ways she never imagined.

The Giant

2019

No artwork available
NR

While preparing for the role of her life in Rome, opera diva Livia Angelli needs to deal with the unexpected return of her daughter Mimi, who wants to be her understudy. But when she’s met by her mother’s callous dismissal, Mimi snaps and starts a perverse competition for the limelight.

The Prima Donna