It’s a happy birthday to Cloverfield cutie Odette Yustman, who turns 23 today, and certainly looks a lot better without a steel rod sticking out of her shoulder.

Time and the cruel crucible of young starlet turnover will tell if Yustman has the chops to carry other movies, or if the general effectiveness and affecting nature of her turn in Cloverfield was more a product of its verité construction. Regardless, she seems really naturally charming and pleasant, and I’m both surprised and stoked that actually that’s her given birth name.