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THE ISRAEL BORN BOMBSHELL IS ADJUSTING TO STARDOM ON THE HEELS OF HER FIRST BLOCKBUSTER, ALONGSIDE MERYL STREEP.

For 17-year-old actress Odeya Rush, success may have come early, but the path to Hollywood wasn’t easy. “I didn’t really speak English,” recalls the Israeli immigrant, who resided in Alabama and then New Jersey after her family moved to America, when she was nine. “I started out with modeling gigs, then silent commercials — my agent told me I could come back When I erased my accents. I had the Israeli accent, but also a Jersey one! I practiced every day after school.”Rush worked hard and returned six months later, rid of them both.

A couple of TV roles and a part in Disney’s The Odd Life of Timothy Green came shortly after. Then her family moved to Los Angeles. “It was six months of auditioning for so many things,” Rush says of entering the business. “There were a lot of bad parts that I auditioned for and wanted so badly just because I was in L.A. I read for one casting agent who told me—and I won’t name her —but she told me I would never be on the level of two other actresses my own age.” The agent’s takedown could have shut the still very young thespian down, but instead it lit a fire.

The stunning blue-eyed brunette booked Phillip Noyce’s adaptation of the dystopian young-adult classic The Giver, costarring Meryl Streep (“she makes a person when she acts”), Jeff Bridges (“an old soul who transforms”), and new pal Taylor Swift. She locked down the lead role in a blockbuster adaptation of the Goosebumps series, opposite Jack Black, immediately after.

“It’s such a thrill!” Rush exclaims. “You’re never going to be bored with acting. You’re never going to get stuck. It’s endless. There’s nothing else like it.” She says she’s taking her newfound career one day at a time— read-ing new scripts, writing a few of her own, starting her senior year of high school, and indulging in her other passion. “I really love singing! But I don’t have the voice,” she admits. With her first passion hitting its stride, a girl can always dream: “My album would be very…autotuned.”