Odette Annable

                                                         

She was born in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Lydia, is Cuban. Her father, Victor Yustman, who is of Italian and French descent, was born in Bogotá, Colombia and raised in Nicaragua. She graduated from Woodcrest Christian High School in Riverside, California. After graduating, she had planned on getting a degree in business finance at Loyola Marymount University before she decided to pursue a career in acting.

Annable made her acting debut at an early age, playing a young, Spanish-speaking student named Rosa 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 The Unborn, which was released in 2009.

She is featured in the music video for "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" by Weezer.

She starred as Melanie in the Fox comedy, Breaking In. On August 24, 2011, the show was renewed by Fox for thirteen episodes, scheduled to air in the midseason comedy block.

In October 2011, Annable began starring in Fox's House as Dr. Jessica Adams, one of Dr. Gregory House's newest recruits and made her first appearance in the eighth season premiere "Twenty Vicodin".