Adelaide Clemens is an Australian actress. She was nominated for a Logie Award in 2008 for her role in the television seriesLove My Way. In 2012, she played Valentine Wannop in BBC's television miniseries adaptation Parade's End. In Hollywood, Clemens has appeared in ' and The Great Gatsby, and starred in '. From 2013 to 2016, she starred in the television series Rectify.
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, she 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. Clemens was seen in the MTV Networks Australia dramatic film, Dream Life, and had small roles in the television series All Saints and the film ', in 2009. She became the face of Jan Logan Jewellery that year. Clemens relocated to Los Angeles, California in 2009. She starred in the film, Wasted on the Young, 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. She guest-starred on the Foxcrime drama, Lie To Me and starred as a sociopathic prostitute in the film Generation Um.... , Clemens was in negotiations to join the cast of Fury Road, a sequel to the Mad Maxfilm series by George Miller. The following year, she starred in the film Certainty, directed by Peter Askin. She also starred in Vampire, as Ladybird, a suicidal single mother. The film was the English-language feature debut of the noted Japanese director Shunji Iwai. The next year, Clemens starred in Camilla Dickinson. The drama was an adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's eponymous 1951 novel. She starred as teenager Heather Mason in the horror film'. That year, Clemens also played a lead role as the young suffragette Valentine Wannop in Parade's End, a television mini-series adaptation of the Ford Madox Fordtetralogy co-produced by HBO and BBC Two. Clemens also appeared in the horror film, No One Lives. The year after, she appeared in the film, The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's eponymous novel. She played Catherine, the sister of Myrtle Wilson. On television that year, Clemens also began starring as Tawney Talbot in the 2013 Sundance Channel television series, Rectify.
