Adelaide Clemens
{{short description|Australian actress (born 1989)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{Use Australian English|date=April 2012}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Adelaide Clemens
| image = Adelaide Clemens 2017.jpg
| alt = Photo of Adelaide Clemens
| caption = Clemens in 2017
| birthname =
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 2006–present
| website =
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Adelaide Clemens is an Australian actress. On television, she has played Harper on the W series Love My Way (2007), Valentine on the BBC/HBO series Parade's End (2012), Tawney on the Sundance TV series Rectify (2013–2016), and Blake on the CBS series Tommy (2020). In film, she has played Xandrie in Wasted on the Young (2010), Ladybird in Vampire (2011), Heather / Sharon in Silent Hill: Revelation (2012), Catherine in The Great Gatsby (2013), Hazel in To the Stars (2019), and Carey in The Swearing Jar (2022).
Early life and education
Adelaide Clemens was born in Brisbane, Queensland. Her parents lived in Japan but travelled to Australia for her birth.{{cite web|url=https://o.canada.com/entertainment/they-like-putting-me-in-these-things-because-i-scare-easily|website=Canada.com|title=Adelaide Clemens on landing the starring role in Silent Hill|access-date=14 February 2020|archive-date=23 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200323151421/https://o.canada.com/entertainment/they-like-putting-me-in-these-things-because-i-scare-easily|url-status=dead}} She and her family returned to Japan shortly thereafter. She has two younger brothers, Sebastian and Felix.{{cite web|url=http://www.dailylife.com.au/dl-people/dl-entertainment/adelaide-clemens-the-observer-20150113-12naep.html|website=Daily Life (Aus)|title=Adelaide Clemens: the observer|access-date=13 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213165102/http://www.dailylife.com.au/dl-people/dl-entertainment/adelaide-clemens-the-observer-20150113-12naep.html|archive-date=13 February 2020|url-status=dead}} Her father, Mark Clemens, is English and was a marketing manager for Seagram. Her mother, Janea Clemens, is an Australian cardiac nurse.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/valentines-day-adelaide-clemens-has-stolen-the-show-in-the-bbc-drama-parades-end-8157366.html|website=The Independent|title=Valentine's day: Adelaide Clemens has stolen the show in the BBC drama Parade's End}}
After living in Japan, she was raised in France until the age of six, 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.{{cite news|last=Godwin|first=Richard|title=After the Parade|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/after-the-parade--what-next-for-adelaide-clemens-costume-dramas-new-darling-8181820.html|accessdate=28 September 2012|newspaper=London Evening Standard|date=28 September 2012}} She attended high school at the Queenwood School for Girls, in the Sydney suburb of Balmoral.{{cite news |last=Sourris |first=Marie-Christine |title=Queensland gals light up LA |date=27 March 2011 |newspaper=The Sunday Mail |url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/queensland-gals-lighting-up-la/story-fn6ck8la-1226028537619 |accessdate=31 May 2013 }}
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.{{Cite news |title=Full list of Logie nominees |date=7 April 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/full-list-of-logie-nominees/story-e6freuy9-1111115993662 |accessdate=28 June 2010 }}
Clemens was seen in the MTV Networks Australia dramatic film, Dream Life (2008),{{Cite news |first=Vicky |last=Roach |title=Sigrid Thornton in new drama Dream Life |date=18 August 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/tv/sigrid-thornton-gets-wicked/story-e6frexlr-1111117218682 |accessdate=28 June 2010 }} 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.{{Cite news |first=Damien |last=Woolnough |title=Jan Logan continues to unearth fresh faces |date=4 November 2009 |magazine=Vogue |url=http://www.vogue.com.au/fashion/news/logans+latest+gem,2245 |accessdate=28 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411141619/http://www.vogue.com.au/fashion/news/logans+latest+gem,2245 |archive-date=11 April 2012 |url-status=dead }} Clemens relocated to Los Angeles, California, in 2009.{{Cite news |first=Vicky |last=Roach |date=8 March 2011 |title=A light in the gloom |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/a-light-in-the-gloom/story-fn6ccwsa-1226017354830 |accessdate=23 March 2012 }}
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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.{{Cite news |title=Big-screen lessons from school of hard knocks |date=11 June 2010 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/bigscreen-lessons-from-school-of-hard-knocks-20100610-y09g.html |accessdate=28 June 2010 | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100613124610/http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/bigscreen-lessons-from-school-of-hard-knocks-20100610-y09g.html| archivedate= 13 June 2010 | url-status= live}} She guest-starred on the Fox crime drama, Lie To Me, and starred as a sociopathic prostitute in the film Generation Um... (2010).{{Cite web |last=Chang |first=Justin |date=2013-05-03 |title=Film Review: ‘Generation Um…’ |url=https://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/generation-um-review-1200442233/ |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} {{As of|2010|1}}, Clemens was in negotiations to join the cast of Fury Road, the fourth in the Mad Max film series by George Miller.{{Cite news |last=Kit |first=Borys |title="Single Man" co-star joins "Mad Max" movie |date=28 January 2010 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |publisher=Reuters|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE60R1CL20100128 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100130031106/http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE60R1CL20100128 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 January 2010 |accessdate=28 June 2010 }}
The following year, she starred in the film Certainty (2011), directed by Peter Askin.{{Cite news |first=Gordon |last=Cox |title='Certainty' heads into production |date=17 March 2010 |magazine=Variety |url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118019448.html?categoryid=4026&cs=1&ref=ma |accessdate=28 June 2010 }} 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.{{Cite news|first=Neil |last=Reid |title=Keisha gets teeth into vampire role |date=6 June 2010 |newspaper=Sunday News |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-news/news/3781495/Keisha-gets-teeth-into-vampire-role |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608085421/http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-news/news/3781495/Keisha-gets-teeth-into-vampire-role |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 June 2010 |accessdate=28 June 2010 }}
The next year, Clemens starred in Camilla Dickinson (2012), an adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's 1951 novel.{{Cite news |first=Borys |last=Kit |title= EXCLUSIVE: Four Actors Board Madeleine L'Engle Adaptation |date=9 November 2010 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/adelaide-clemens-gregg-sulkin-cary-43460 |accessdate=15 November 2010 | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20101113042124/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/adelaide-clemens-gregg-sulkin-cary-43460| archivedate= 13 November 2010 | url-status= live}} She starred as teenager Heather Mason in the horror film Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (2012).{{Cite news |first=Dave |last=McNary |title= Clemens, Harington join 'Silent Hill' |date=7 March 2011 |magazine=Variety |url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118033463?refCatId=13|accessdate=8 March 2011 }} 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.{{Cite news |title=Anne Marie Duff Lands role in BBC Two/HBO miniseries 'Parade’s End' |date=20 September 2011 |publisher=Irish Film and Television Network |url=http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4284273&tpl=archnews |accessdate=29 September 2011 }} She also appeared in the horror film No One Lives (2012).{{Cite news |first1=Marc |last1=Graser |first2=Jeff |last2=Sneider |date=31 October 2012 |title=Anchor Bay acquires WWE's 'No One Lives' |magazine=Variety |url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118061487/ |accessdate=15 February 2013 }}
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.{{Cite news |first=Gerard |last=Gilbert |date=20 September 2012 |title=Valentine's day: Adelaide Clemens has stolen the show in the BBC drama Parade's End |newspaper=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/valentines-day-adelaide-clemens-has-stolen-the-show-in-the-bbc-drama-parades-end-8157366.html |accessdate=15 February 2013 }} On television, Clemens began starring as Tawney Talbot in the 2013 Sundance Channel series, Rectify.{{cite web |title=Sundance Channel | RECTIFY | Adelaide Clemens |website=Sundance Channel |url=http://www.sundancechannel.com/rectify/cast/adelaide-clemens/ |accessdate=15 February 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
In 2020, Clemens took a starring role in the CBS drama Tommy.{{Cite web |last=Petski |first=Denise |date=2019-02-28 |title=‘Tommy’: Adelaide Clemens To Co-Star In CBS Cop Drama Pilot From Paul Attanasio |url=https://deadline.com/2019/02/tommy-adelaide-clemens-co-star-cbs-cop-drama-pilot-paul-attanasio-1202567220/ |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| scope="row" |2009
|Carnival girl |
| rowspan=2 ! scope="row" |2010
|At the Tattooist |Kelly |
| Wasted on the Young
|Xandrie | |
| rowspan=2 ! scope="row" |2011
|Ladybird | |
| Certainty
|Deb Catalano | |
| rowspan=4 ! scope="row" | 2012
|Camilla Dickinson | |
| Generation Um...
|Mia | |
| No One Lives
|Emma | |
| Silent Hill: Revelation
|Heather Mason / Sharon Da Silva | |
| scope="row" |2013
|Catherine | |
| rowspan=2 ! scope="row" | 2015
|Lori | |
| The Automatic Hate
|Alexis Green | |
| scope="row" |2017
|Rabbit |Maude Ashton |Supernatural horror film, written and directed by Luke Shanahan and produced by David Ngo{{cite web | title=Adelaide filmmakers bring drug busts and family drama to Sundance | website=InDaily| first= Penelope|last= Debelle | date=24 January 2025 | url=https://www.indailysa.com.au/inreview/film-tv/2025/01/24/adelaide-filmmakers-bring-drug-busts-and-family-drama-to-sundance | access-date=30 January 2025}} |
| scope="row" | 2018
| The Caretaker | Sara | Short film |
| rowspan=2 ! scope="row" | 2019
| Hazel Atkins | |
| I'll Find You
| Rachel Rubin | |
| scope="row" | 2022
| Carey | |
| scope="row" | 2024
| White Widow | Natalie | Completed |
=Television=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| scope="row" |2006
|Juliet |Episode: "2.5" |
| rowspan=2 ! scope="row" | 2007
|Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji |Alison |Main role |
| Love My Way
|Harper |Recurring role; 8 episodes |
| rowspan=2 ! scope="row" | 2008
|Fiona |Episode: "1.37" |
| Dream Life
|Rose |
| scope="row" |2009
|Stephanie |Episode: "Give and Take 2" |
| rowspan=2 ! scope="row" | 2010
|{{sortname|The|Pacific|The Pacific (TV miniseries)}} |Registrar Girl |Episode: "Home" |
| Lie to Me
|Megan Cross |Episode: "The Royal We" |
| scope="row" |2012
|Valentine Wannop |Miniseries; main role |
| scope="row" |2013–2016
|Tawney Talbot |Main role |
| scope="row" |2014
|Parer's War |Elizabeth Marie Cotter |Television film |
| scope="row" |2018
|Merla (voice) |Main role (season 8) |
| scope="row" |2020
|Blake |Main role |
| scope="row" |2022
|Rebecca Pyre | rowspan="2" | Miniseries; main role |
| scope="row" |2023
|Sandy |
= Stage =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Theater |
|---|
| scope="row" | 2016
| Hold On to Me Darling | Essie |
| scope="row" | 2018
| Hilary |
Awards and nominations
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |
| scope="col" | Award
! scope="col" | Year{{Efn|Indicates the year of ceremony. Each year is linked to the article about the awards held that year, wherever possible.|group=lower-alpha}} ! scope="col" | Category ! scope="col" | Nominated work ! scope="col" | Result ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |
|---|
| scope="row" | Logie Awards
| 2008 | Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent | {{nom}} |
Notes
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References
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External links
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Category:Australian film actresses
Category:Australian people of English descent