Odessa

Odessa Adlon, also known as Odessa A'zion, is an American actress who appeared (among other roles) on the TV shows Milo Murphy's Law and Ghosts, as well as the films Let's Scare Jane, Hellraiser, and Fresh Kills.

Odessa Young is an Australian actress. She gained prominence through her roles in the Nine Network drama Tricky Business (2012) and the 2015 films Looking for Grace and The Daughter, the latter of which earned her an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her films since include Assassination Nation, A Million Little Pieces (both 2018), Shirley (2020), Mothering Sunday (2021) and Manodrome (2023). On television, she starred in the miniseries The Stand (2020). Young made her off-Broadway debut in Days of Rage.

Odessa Lee Clay (née O'Grady; 1917 – 1994) was the mother of three-time world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and Rahaman Ali, and the paternal grandmother of Laila Ali. She married Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. In the 1930s and worked for some time as a household domestic to help support her young children. She supported and inspired her son throughout his boxing career and was a ring-side regular at his bouts.

Odessa, Texas.

Odessa is the sister of Sofia in the book The Color Purple by Alice Walker.

Odessa is a major city in Ukraine.

I first heard this name while watching "The Long Walk Home" with Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek. Whoppi plays Odessa Cotter, who is a very strong and admirable character, and Sissy plays Miriam, Odessa's boss who gives her rides to work during the Montgomery bus boycott--and thus becomes involved in civil rights. Needless to say, it was a very powerful movie.

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For me, "Odessa" reminded me of "Odysseus" (which it's connected to on this site), which further reminded me of the word "odyssey," which means journey. I think that naming a child anything to do with a "journey" is wonderful, since what else can it allude to but the journey that is Life? I think *Odessa Miriam* is an absolutely beautiful, powerful name with a great amount of substance (without being pompous).

In the computer game Half-Life 2, "Colonel" Odessa Cubbage is a cowardly Englishman who aids the player during one section of the game. He is the commander of a rebel hideout called New Little Odessa.

It's a city in Ukraine, too. Mark Twain said he was very fond of this city when he visited it in The Innocents Abroad.

In Florida there is a city named Odessa.

Odessa Chen is the female singer in the little-known band Thee More Shallows(she has a beautiful voice).

Odessa was the name of a great wolf in Patrick Carman's "The Land of Elyon" series.

Little Odessa is a film from 1994 starring Tim Roth and Edward Furlong.