Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0

Odessa A'zion built a career playing anxious, live-wire young women, from the lead in Netflix's Grand Army to the reimagined Kirsty in the 2022 Hellraiser remake. She moved between horror (The Inhabitant, Until Dawn) and prestige ensembles, earning an Actor Award nomination and a BAFTA nod for her performance in Marty Supreme (2025), a signal that critics were starting to take the scream-queen work seriously as acting.