Adelaide Clemens is a talented Australian actress born and raised in Brisbane, Australia, with a British father. Her early start in the entertainment industry began while still in high school, where she guest-starred in a 2006 episode of the Australian television series Blue Water High as Juliet. She went on to star in the children's series Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji in 2007 as Alison.
In 2004, Clemens played Harper in the Showtime drama Love My Way, earning her a nomination for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent at the 2008 Logie Awards. She continued to work in television, appearing in episodes of All Saints and later landed a role in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. In 2009, she became the face of Jan Logan's jewelry and relocated to Los Angeles, California.
Clemens' film credits include Wasted on the Young (2010),where she played the role of Xandrie, and Camilla Dickinson (2012),an adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's 1951 novel, alongside Gregg Sulkin, Cary Elwes, and Samantha Mathis. She also portrayed teenager Heather Mason in the horror film Silent Hill: Revelation, based on the survival horror video game Silent Hill 3, and played the lead role of young suffragette Valentine Wannop in the television mini-series Parade's End.
In 2012, Clemens appeared in the horror film No One Lives alongside Luke Evans and also played Catherine, the sister of Myrtle Wilson, in the film The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name. She went on to star as Tawney Talbot in the Sundance Channel television miniseries Rectify, created by Ray McKinnon.
In addition to her television and film work, Clemens will star in the independent drama The Girl Who Invented Kissing alongside Natalie Dormer, Stephen Graham, and Zachary Quinto.
