Adelaide Clemens Quotes

Australia, Actress
November 30, 1989

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 novel adaptation Parade's End, alongside Benedict Cumberbatch. Clemens has also appeared in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Great Gatsby, and Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (as Heather Mason). From 2013-2016, she starred in the television series Rectify.

I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

Adelaide Clemens
In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.

Adelaide Clemens
- Confidence

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

Adelaide Clemens
- Up
- Father
- English
I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.

Adelaide Clemens
- Children
- Family
- Military
I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn't do it long term.

Adelaide Clemens
- Long
- Live
- Friends
Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

Adelaide Clemens
I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.'

Adelaide Clemens
- God
- Thinking
- Remember
I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

Adelaide Clemens