From high school dropout to Colin Firth co-star: Odessa Young’s big gamble
Related: Olivia Colman: ‘Portraying a murderer? It was less pressure than playing the Queen’ Young was single-minded in her ambition. She had had her big career break at 16, playing the eponymous runaway teenager in Sue Brooks’s Looking for Grace, before a week later filming the part of Hedvig in Simon Stone’s film The Daughter, based on Henrik Ibsen’s play The Wild Duck. But the gamble would take time to pay off.