Odette Annable

Posted August 31, 200717 yr

Odette Yustman

Odette Annable (née Odette Juliette Yustman) born on May 10, 1985 in Los Angeles, California.

She is an American actress. She has played lead roles in various television shows and movies, including South Beach, Kindergarten Cop and October Road.

Life and career

Annable was born in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Lydia, is Cuban, and her father, Victor Yustman, who is of Italian and French descent, was born in Bogotá, Colombia and raised in Nicaragua. Annable is fluent in Spanish.

Annable graduated from Woodcrest Christian High School in Riverside, California. After graduating, she had planned on getting a degree in business finance at Loyola Marymount University before she decided to pursue a career in acting.

She debuted at an early age, playing a young, Spanish-speaking student named Rosa 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. She also provided the voice of the character Amata in Fallout 3. On January 29, 2008, Variety announced that she would appear in The Unborn, which was released in 2009. Much Internet buzz was generated by the release of an international poster for Unborn that seemed to exploit Annable's physical attractiveness.

Annable is featured in the music video for "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" by Weezer.

Commencing April 6, 2011, Odette Annable stars as Melanie in Fox Broadcasting Company's comedy, Breaking In.

Personal life

She was previously engaged to Trevor Wright. She married Brothers & Sisters star Dave Annable on October 10, 2010.