Odette was born in Los Angeles, California on May 10th, 1985. According to the actress, her mother, Lydia, is Cuban, and her father, Victor Yustman, who is of Italian and French descent, was born in Bogota, Colombia and raised in Nicaragua. She is fluent in Spanish. She debuted at an early age, playing a young student in Kindergarten Cop and later moved on to various television shows and movies such as South Beach and October Road. In 2007, she starred in the Lifetime original movie Reckless Behavior: Caught on Tape and followed it quickly with a lead role in J. J. Abrams' Cloverfield. On January 29, 2008, Variety announced that she would appear in Unborn, which is slated for release in 2009. That is where I found her. Unborn looks like the most intense horror movie so far. She is engaged to Trevor Wright, another up and coming actor.