[5] Odessa Young started acting professionally at the age of 11,[6] when she was cast through her drama teacher in the Australian children's show My Place.

[6] She acted in television series such as Wonderland and Tricky Business before making the transition into feature film work.

[2] That year, she also made her off-Broadway debut in Days of Rage at the Tony Kiser Theater, where she plays the radical Quinn in 1969.

[5] Released in 2020, the series features Young as Frannie, with a "new coda co-written by King himself" that gives her a different portrayal than the book in the final episode.

[22][23] In 2020, Young was cast as a hostess in the HBO Max television series Tokyo Vice, to be directed by Michael Mann and written by J. T. Rogers.

She was subsequently replaced by Rachel Keller,[24][25] when she pulled out of the production over scheduling conflicts related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[29] In 2020, Odessa Young participated in Acting for a Cause, a live classic play and screenplay reading series created, directed and produced by Brando Crawford.