Adelaide Clemens
Photo of Adelaide Clemens
Clemens at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
Born (1989-11-30) 30 November 1989
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 (as Heather Mason). From 2013 to 2016, she starred in the television series Rectify.

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).

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

Year Title Role Notes
2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine Carnival Girl
2010 At the Tattooist Kelly Short film
Wasted on the Young Xandrie
2011 Vampire Ladybird Shunji Iwai film
Certainty Deb Catalano
2012 Camilla Dickinson Camilla Dickinson Lead Role
Generation Um... Mia
No One Lives Emma
Silent Hill: Revelation Heather / Alessa Dual Role
2013 The Great Gatsby Catherine
2015 The World Made Straight Lori
The Automatic Hate Alexis Green
2017 Rabbit Maude Ashton
2018 The Caretaker Sara Short film
2019 To the Stars Hazel Atkins
I'll Find You Rachel Rubin
2022 The Swearing Jar Carey
2024 White Widow Natalie Completed

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2006 Blue Water High Juliet Episode 2.5
2007 Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji Alison 13 episodes
Love My Way Harper 8 episodes
2008 Out of the Blue Fiona Episode 1.37
Dream Life Rose Movie
2009 All Saints Stephanie Episode: "Give and Take 2"
2010 The Pacific Registrar Girl Episode: "Home"
Lie to Me Megan Cross Episode: "The Royal We"
2012 Parade's End Valentine Wannop Miniseries
2013–2016 Rectify Tawney Talbot Main role
2014 Parer's War Elizabeth Marie Cotter Movie
2018 Voltron: Legendary Defender Merla Voice role; Season 8
2020 Tommy Blake Main role
2022 Under the Banner of Heaven Rebecca Pyre Miniseries
2023 Justified: City Primeval Sandy Miniseries

Stage

Year Title Role Venue
2016 Hold On to Me Darling Essie Atlantic Theater Company, Off-Broadway
2018 The Hard Problem Hilary Lincoln Center, Off-Broadway

References

  1. ↑ "Adelaide Clemens on landing the starring role in Silent Hill". Canada.com. Archived from the original on 23 March 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  2. ↑ "Adelaide Clemens: the observer". Daily Life (Aus). Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  3. ↑ "Valentine's day: Adelaide Clemens has stolen the show in the BBC drama Parade's End". The Independent.
  4. ↑ Godwin, Richard (28 September 2012). "After the Parade". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  5. ↑ Sourris, Marie-Christine (27 March 2011). "Queensland gals light up LA". The Sunday Mail. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "Full list of Logie nominees". The Daily Telegraph. 7 April 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  7. ↑ Roach, Vicky (18 August 2008). "Sigrid Thornton in new drama Dream Life". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  8. ↑ Woolnough, Damien (4 November 2009). "Jan Logan continues to unearth fresh faces". Vogue. Archived from the original on 11 April 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  9. ↑ Roach, Vicky (8 March 2011). "A light in the gloom". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  10. ↑ "Big-screen lessons from school of hard knocks". The Sydney Morning Herald. 11 June 2010. Archived from the original on 13 June 2010. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  11. ↑ Kit, Borys (28 January 2010). ""Single Man" co-star joins "Mad Max" movie". The Hollywood Reporter. Reuters. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  12. ↑ Cox, Gordon (17 March 2010). "'Certainty' heads into production". Variety. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  13. ↑ Reid, Neil (6 June 2010). "Keisha gets teeth into vampire role". Sunday News. Archived from the original on 8 June 2010. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  14. ↑ Kit, Borys (9 November 2010). "EXCLUSIVE: Four Actors Board Madeleine L'Engle Adaptation". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 13 November 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
  15. ↑ McNary, Dave (7 March 2011). "Clemens, Harington join 'Silent Hill'". Variety. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  16. ↑ "Anne Marie Duff Lands role in BBC Two/HBO miniseries 'Parade's End'". Irish Film and Television Network. 20 September 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  17. ↑ Graser, Marc; Sneider, Jeff (31 October 2012). "Anchor Bay acquires WWE's 'No One Lives'". Variety. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  18. ↑ Gilbert, Gerard (20 September 2012). "Valentine's day: Adelaide Clemens has stolen the show in the BBC drama Parade's End". The Independent. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  19. ↑ "Sundance Channel | RECTIFY | Adelaide Clemens". Sundance Channel. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
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