Odette Tyler was born in Bucharest, Romania. Her uncle was a film director, and Odette spent most of her childhood on movie sets. A year after graduating high school in 1987, she escaped communist Romania and fled to the West. After 3 years in Germany, she moved to the United States, to be reunited with her family. She graduated from University of Southern California (USC) in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts. Odette is fluent in English, Romanian, German, French & Spanish.