Odette Juliette Yustman (born May 10, 1985) is an American actress.
Yustman was born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. 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. Yustman 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. She also provided the voice of the character Amata in Fallout 3. On January 29, 2008,
Variety announced that she would appear in
Unborn, which is slated for release in 2009.
She is engaged to Trevor Wright.
