Odeya Rush

Odeya Rush was born in 1997 in Haifa

Odeya Rush was born Odeya Rushinek in Haifa on 12 May 1997 to Shlomo Rushinek and Maia Greenfeld, who came from the Soviet Union. She grew up speaking Hebrew and Russian. As a child in Haifa she wrote and performed plays.

At 9 she moved with her family to the United States, where her father worked as a security consultant in Alabama. She attended the N. E. Miles Jewish Day School in Birmingham and later a public school in New Jersey. In 2013 the family moved to Los Angeles.

She began as a child model in campaigns for Gap, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren and H&M. Her first acting roles came in 2010 on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and her first film was The Odd Life of Timothy Green in 2012.

She played Fiona in The Giver in 2014 and the female lead in Goosebumps in 2015. In 2017 she appeared in Lady Bird and The Bachelors, and in 2016 she directed and starred in the short film Thanks, shown at Cannes. In 2021 she played the lead in the Israeli series Baalat HaChalomot, her first Hebrew role.

She starred in Dangerous Waters in 2023. In 2026 she began playing Maria in the Fox series Memory of a Killer.