Odeya Rush was born in Haifa, Israel, to parents Maia and Shlomo. She has six brothers (including two sets of twins). When she was nine her family moved to the US so her father could take a job in Alabama as a security consultant. Two years later the family moved to the New York City area so Odeya could pursue acting. By age 12 she had booked many ...
Goosebumps, The Giver, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, We Are What We Are, Hunter's Prayer, Holding Patterns, The Bachelors, Mary Mother of Christ, Wild Birds, Lady Bird, When the Devil Comes, The Locals
Star Sign
Taurus
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Trademark
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Striking blue eyes
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Quote
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When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress. He was like, "OK, calm down. Learn English."
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[on her first name] It's an interesting story, actually . . . I'm Jewish [and] . . . it's from the [Old Testament] . . . They thought of many other names, but they couldn't exactly agree. My dad just opened the book and the first sentence he saw, it was in Hebrew . . . My name, Odeya, means "Thank God." So that's where they found it.
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Fact
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Studies with Ann Ratray in NYC.
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Odeya is the only girl in her family among six boys; two older brothers, and two sets of younger twin boys.
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Odeya balances her acting, singing and dancing with biking and swimming.