Born and raised in Brisbane Australia Daughter of a British father Clemens began working as an actress on Australian television while in high school She gueststarred in a 2006 episode of Blue Water High as Juliet and in 2007 she starred in the childrens 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 2008 MTV Networks Australia dramatic film Dream Life alongside Sigrid Thornton Xavier Samuel Linda Cropper and Andrew McFarlaneShe had small roles in the television series All Saints and the film XMen Origins Wolverine in 2009 She became the face of Jan Logans jewelery that yearClemens relocated to Los Angeles California in 2009 Clemens starred in the 2010 film Wasted on the Young as Xandrie In 2012 Clemens starred in Camilla Dickinson alongside Gregg Sulkin Cary Elwes and Samantha Mathis The drama was an adaptation of the 1951 novel of the same name by youngadult fiction author Madeleine LEngleShe portrayed teenager Heather Mason in Silent Hill Revelation 3D The horror film was based on the survival horror video game Silent Hill 3 and was a sequel to the film Silent HillThat year Clemens also played a lead role as the young suffragette Valentine Wannop in Parades End a television miniseries adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford tetralogy coproduced by HBO and BBC Two Clemens appeared in the 2012 horror film No One Lives starring Luke Evans She also appeared in the 2013 film The Great Gatsby based on F Scott Fitzgeralds novel of the same name She played Catherine the sister of Myrtle Wilson played by Isla Fisher Clemens stars as Tawney Talbot in the 2013 Sundance Channel television miniseries Rectify created by Ray McKinnon She will also star with Natalie Dormer Stephen Graham and Zachary Quinto in the independent drama The Girl Who Invented Kissing