Odelya Halevi

Odelya Halevi was born in 1989 in Rosh HaAyin

Odelya Halevi was born on February 12, 1989, in Rosh HaAyin. She is the second oldest of 6 children of a teacher and a retired firefighter. Her family is Yemenite Jewish, and her grandparents came to Israel from Yemen.

As a child she went to an Orthodox girls school. Each month she wrote and staged short plays for Rosh Chodesh.

She completed her mandatory service in the IDF. At 19 she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting, returned briefly to Israel, and went back to Los Angeles the next year. She worked as a waitress and appeared in commercials.

She appeared in series such as Mike & Molly, New Girl, NCIS, MacGyver, Good Girls Revolt and Why Women Kill, and played Angelica in Good Trouble. In 2022 she appeared in the film Black Adam. From season 21 she joined Law & Order as Samantha Maroun.

In May 2025 she married real estate agent Aaron Mazor in Tel Aviv.