Omotayo Odebunmi

Omotayo Odebunmi was born October 15, 2004, in Chicago, Illinois. Her parents are Natalie Odebunmi and Akin Odebunmi. She moved to Southern California within a year of her birth when her parents returned to Orange County after being away for 3 years. In her elementary school days, she attended McCoy Rigby Arts, founded by Cathy Rigby and Tom McCoy, for voice, acting, musical theater, and dance training. In 2016, she was an extra on set for Uncle Buck (2016). In 2019, she played the role of a high school student in Kevin Ruiz's S'ids Lake (2019). She attended middle school and high school at Orange County School of the Arts, as an active member of the Integrated Arts Conservatory from 2017 to 2022. She had to be really picky about the projects she worked on because of the hectic schedule that came with attending a school of the arts program with a lot of performances during the school year. She was a member of the Mania urban dance team that was also part of the integrated arts program. Tayo is a classically trained ballet dancer with classes from Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA) as well as summer intensive training at Debbie Allen's Dance Academy in Los Angeles. Her performance in Debbie Allen's Hot Chocolate Nutcracker appears in a related Netflix documentary about Debbie Allen's dance academy called Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker (2020).