Biography

Born on the beautiful shores of Lake Superior, at the age of twenty Odin traveled to Russia to train at the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio (MXAT) for three months and ended up staying in Moscow for fifteen years.

Graduated from MXAT with honors in 2009, one of only two Americans and a handful of foreigners to have ever graduated from the traditional (Russian-language) acting program. Studies were followed by a five-year run as beloved intern Phil Richards on Russia's most popular sitcom "Interns".

In 2013, an unexpected invitation from renowned director Kirill Serebrennikov ("The Student", "Leto", "Petrov's Flu") to play the lead role of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov in his staging of Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls" lead to eight prolific years as a troupe actor at Russia's acclaimed contemporary theater, Gogol Center where Odin was involved in more than fifteen premieres, two Golden Mask nominations for best actor and participated in multiple international festivals, including three residencies at Festival d'Avignon ("Dead Souls" 2016, "Outside" 2019, "The Black Monk" 2022).

In July 2022 Serebrennikov's "The Black Monk" (Thalia Theater, Hamburg) opened the 2022 Festival d'Avignon at the Palais de Papes. On May 18th, 2022 Odin walked the red carpet at the 75th Festival de Cannes, presenting Serebrennikov's film "Tchaikovsky's Wife" where Odin played Pyotr Tchaikovsky. In 2024, premiered once again at Cannes in five supporting roles opposite Ben Whishaw in "Limonov: The Ballad".

In March of 2022 Odin left Russia permanently and now resides in Berlin, Germany.
- IMDb mini biography by: Odin L Biron

His name is meaning "fury, excitation", as well as "mind" or "poetry". Odin is a principal member of the Æsir (the major group of the Norse pantheon) and is associated with war, battle, victory and death, but also wisdom, Shamanism, magic, poetry, prophecy, and the hunt. Odin has many sons, the most famous of whom is the thunder god Thor.

Following his sophomore year at the University of Michigan, he went to Russia for a study-abroad semester at the legendary Moscow Art Theatre.

He grew up in a cabin, an hour's drive north of Duluth, Minnesota. After his parents divorced, he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan with his mother.