Adelaide Clemens

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Adelaide Clemens
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Clemens at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
Born (1989-11-30) 30 November 1989 (age 34)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
OccupationActress
Years active2006–present

Adelaide Clemens (born 30 November 1989) is an Australian actress. She was nominated for a Logie Award in 2008 for her role in the television series Love My Way . In 2012, she played Valentine Wannop in BBC's television miniseries adaptation Parade's End . In Hollywood, Clemens has appeared in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and The Great Gatsby , and starred in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (as Heather Mason). From 2013 to 2016, she starred in the television series Rectify .

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Early life

Clemens was born in Brisbane, Queensland. Her parents lived in Japan but went to Australia for her birth. [1] She has two younger brothers Sebastian and Felix. [2] Her father, Mark Clemens, is English and was a marketing manager for Seagram. Her mother, Janea Clemens, is an Australian cardiac nurse. [3] After living in Japan, she was raised in France until the age of 6 and then Hong Kong to the age of 12, where she attended the Hong Kong International School. When she was 12 years old, her family moved to Australia to live in Sydney, New South Wales. [4] She attended high school at the Queenwood School for Girls, in the Sydney suburb of Balmoral. [5]

Career

Clemens began working as an actress in Australian television while in high school. She guest-starred in a 2006 episode of Blue Water High as Juliet, and, in 2007, starred in the children's series Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji , as Alison. Clemens played Harper in the Showtime drama Love My Way that year, and was nominated for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent at the 2008 Logie Awards for the role. [6]

Clemens was seen in the MTV Networks Australia dramatic film, Dream Life (2008), [7] and had small roles in the television series All Saints and the film X-Men Origins: Wolverine , in 2009. She became the face of Jan Logan Jewellery that year. [8] Clemens relocated to Los Angeles, California, in 2009. [9]

She starred in the film Wasted on the Young (2010) as Xandrie. Written and directed by Ben C. Lucas, the film tells the story of a high school love triangle that leads to a party ending in gun violence. [10]

She guest-starred on the Fox crime drama, Lie To Me , and starred as a sociopathic prostitute in the film Generation Um... (2010).[ citation needed ]

As of January 2010, Clemens was in negotiations to join the cast of Fury Road , the fourth in the Mad Max film series by George Miller. [11] The following year, she starred in the film Certainty (2011), directed by Peter Askin. [12] She also starred in Vampire (2011) as Ladybird, a suicidal single mother. The film was the English-language feature debut of noted Japanese director Shunji Iwai. [13]

The next year, Clemens starred in Camilla Dickinson (2012), an adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's 1951 novel. [14] She starred as teenager Heather Mason in the horror film Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (2012). [15] Also that year, Clemens played a lead role as the young suffragette Valentine Wannop in Parade's End (2012), a television mini-series adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford tetralogy co-produced by HBO and BBC Two. [16] She also appeared in the horror film No One Lives (2012). [17]

The following year, she appeared in The Great Gatsby (2013), based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name, playing Catherine, the sister of Myrtle Wilson. [18] On television, Clemens began starring as Tawney Talbot in the 2013 Sundance Channel series, Rectify . [19] In 2020, Clemens took a starring role in the CBS drama Tommy .

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine Carnival Girl
2010At the TattooistKellyShort film
Wasted on the Young Xandrie
2011 Vampire Ladybird Shunji Iwai film
Certainty Deb Catalano
2012 Camilla Dickinson Camilla DickinsonLead Role
Generation Um... Mia
No One Lives Emma
Silent Hill: Revelation Heather / AlessaDual Role
2013 The Great Gatsby Catherine
2015 The World Made Straight Lori
The Automatic Hate Alexis Green
2017RabbitMaude Ashton
2018The CaretakerSaraShort film
2019 To the Stars Hazel Atkins
I'll Find YouRachel Rubin
2022 The Swearing Jar Carey
2024White WidowNatalieCompleted

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2006 Blue Water High JulietEpisode 2.5
2007 Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji Alison13 episodes
Love My Way Harper8 episodes
2008 Out of the Blue FionaEpisode 1.37
Dream LifeRoseMovie
2009 All Saints StephanieEpisode: "Give and Take 2"
2010 The Pacific Registrar GirlEpisode: "Home"
Lie to Me Megan CrossEpisode: "The Royal We"
2012 Parade's End Valentine WannopMiniseries
2013–2016 Rectify Tawney TalbotMain role
2014Parer's WarElizabeth Marie CotterMovie
2018 Voltron: Legendary Defender MerlaVoice role; Season 8
2020 Tommy BlakeMain role
2022 Under the Banner of Heaven Rebecca PyreMiniseries
2023 Justified: City Primeval SandyMiniseries

Stage

YearTitleRoleVenue
2016Hold On to Me DarlingEssie Atlantic Theater Company, Off-Broadway
2018 The Hard Problem Hilary Lincoln Center, Off-Broadway

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