Adelaide Clemens
By Ines Mendoza
We often take a look at well established models and ladies of the catwalk here at Web Wombat Fashion. It makes sense, we are a fashion channel, I'm a fashion expert whose worked in the field of fashion for over 30 fashion years (that's 10 years in human years).
However, sometimes the spotlight needs to be shined on the beauties from other forms of the entertainment industry. Let's face it, movie and TV stars just don't get enough attention! Wait... what? They do? Oh well, to late now, I've already started typing the name... Adelaide Clemens.
I first spotted this Australian lass during a screening of the little seen film Wasted On The Young. The thing that immediately stands out about her is the fact she looks IDENTICAL to Michelle Willams (Dawson's Creek, Oz The Great And Powerful). It's almost like when they started casting Dakota Fanning's sisters in movies instead of Dakota Fanning... by getting a younger, identical looking twin, Dakota Fanning lives on forever without even needing to show up.
I get a similar vibe with Adelaide Clemens. As Michelle Williams ages and is too old or busy for some roles, Adelaide Clemens steps right on it. That sounds like a stab at Adelaide Clemens, but it's not, it's the opposite. I love both of them equally. They are gorgeous, incredibly talented and possess a genuine class and grace to them that most Hollywood actresses just don't seem to have anymore.
Born in Brisbane, Clemens is the daughter of a British father (although she spent several years living as a child in Japan, Cognac, France and Hong Kong) and it wasn't until she was 12 that her family finally returned to Australia.
Her first claim to fame on Australian screens came in the form of a guest spot on the 2006 teen show Blue Water High (best known for it's theme song being from little known New Zealand band Betchadupa), a role which snowballed into several others including the kids tv series Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji and a breakout role of Harper in the Award Winning Love My Way (which garnered her a Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent nomination at the 2008 Logie Awards).
Just on a side note, Love My Way is the single greatest TV program ever produced in Australia. Do yourself a favour and buy it on DVD!
As is often the case with Awards, the nomination really kicked things into overdrive. Adelaide next landed roles in the MTV Network film, Dream Life (starring next to other Aussie acting heavyweights Sigrid Thornton and Xavier Samuel), a few small roles in All Saints and culminating in an appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
This brings us to Wasted on the Young, the film in which here innocence and style really came to the fore. The dark high school drama was a festival darling and delivered her directly to the United States where she quickly picked up work in the crime drama, Lie To Me.
Most recently audiences may have spotted her in the UK series Parades End, a program in which she looks so utterly adorable you'll think you're head might explode due to being unable to process so much cuteness. I'm not kidding, in that show, her hair looks like it may very well be the softest thing on the plant. If you were watching on a 3D TV you could be forgiven for trying to reach out and touch it... SOFT.
Anyhow, the future looks bright for this Brisbanite, with film roles in Generation Um... (costarring with Keanu Reeves and Bojana Novakovic), the Mad Max sequel Fury Road, Certainty (based on the play Searching for Certainty by Mike O'Malley) and as Heather Mason in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (a horror film based on the survival horror video game Silent Hill 3).
So will we see Clemens go the way of Michelle Williams, doing more indie flicks, or will she be the big budget mainstream Michelle Williams we've always wanted to see? Only time will tell... seriously, soft hair guys!
