The 2015 comedy-drama film Dope gave actor, singer, and producer Kiersey Clemons their breakthrough role as Diggy. According to their Instagram bio, Clemons self-identifies as queer and utilizes they/them pronouns, which has led to lots of media coverage surrounding them. Clemons went on to co-star in Zack Snyder's Justice League, Flatliners, Sweetheart, Lady & the Tramp, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, and Hearts Beat Loud, among other films. Additionally, they showed up in the Disney Channel original movie Cloud 9.
Clemons had recurring parts in various television programs, such as Easy, Austin & Ally, Transparent, and Extant. In 2018, they appeared as a cast member of the comedy series Angie Tribeca for the last season. Clemons appeared as a guest star in the drama series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Am I Okay, a comedy-drama from 2022, was Clemons' most recent film appearance. They will co-star in The Flash in 2023 as Iris West, opposite Ezra Miller. Clemons is presently on set as Cassidy for Dave Franco's forthcoming romantic comedy Somebody I Used to Know, which has not yet set a release date. Here is a list of Kiersey Clemons' top cinematic performances thus far.
7 Cloud 9
The 2014 Disney Channel Original film Cloud 9 follows Kayla (Dove Cameron), a snowboarding diva who has just been abruptly fired from her team and has to practice with Will (Luke Benward), a former champion who is having trouble recovering from a wipeout that cost him his career. He was dubbed an "epic fail" online when a video of it went viral. Will now develops a training program that evaluates Kayla's commitment to rising to the challenge of professional competition while she works with him to restore her stature. Clemons plays Skye, a famous snowboarder known for shredding abilities, who replaces Kayla on the snowboarding team. While everything is happening, Kayla must find a way to encourage Will to get through his most harrowing challenge: self-doubt.
6 Lady and the Tramp
The classic tale of how a privileged uptown Cocker Spaniel dog named Lady (voiced by Tessa Thompson) and a streetwise downtown Mutt named Tramp (voiced by Justin Theroux) meet and fall in love is told in the 2019 live-action adaptation of Lady and the Tramp. Disney+ received a direct release of Lady and the Tramp rather than a theater release. In counterpoint to Thomas Mann's portrayal of her husband Jim Dear, Clemons portrays Darling, the woman who receives Lady as a Christmas gift. The movie has a weighted average score of 48 out of 100 on Metacritic, which denotes "mixed or mediocre reviews.”
5 Antebellum
In the 2020 thriller Antebellum, an African-American woman from the 21st Century wakes up on a mystery slave property in the South and must flee. Slaves are subjected to brutal treatment and are not permitted to speak until they are spoken to on a Louisiana slave farm owned by Confederate troops. A man named Eli (Tongayi Chirisa) watches as his wife is killed, and her body is thrown in the cremation following a failed escape attempt. Later, the general severely beats and brands a woman who has been helping them until she agrees to be dubbed Eden (Janelle Monáe). In her role as Julia, Clemons portrays a pregnant woman who attempts to plan a second escape but fails miserably.
4 Flatliners
A science fiction psychological horror drama movie from 2017 is titled Flatliners. It is both a standalone sequel and remake of the same-titled 1990 movie. The movie Flatliners tells the tale of Courtney (Elliot Page), a medical student who is fascinated by the concept of a hereafter and is eager to learn what happens when one passes away. She asks her fellow classmates Jamie (James Norton) and Sophia (Clemons) to accompany her in an experiment in an empty hospital room, where she would record her brain activity while her heart is stopped for 60 seconds and then be revived. She reassures them that they won't be held accountable for any mishaps. Sophia opposes it, but Jamie still does it. They become anxious when they cannot resuscitate her after 60 seconds, but finally succeed with the aid of fellow student Ray (Diego Luna). The movie had an average box office performance, earning $45 million worldwide.
3 Zack Snyder’s Justice League
In Zack Snyder's Justice League, Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck), intent on preventing Superman's (Henry Cavill) greatest sacrifice from being in vain, assembles a group of super-powered beings to defend the planet from an imminent crisis of cataclysmic magnitude. Clemons was chosen to play Iris West in the 2016 action movie The Flash, but production was put on hold after director Rick Famuyiwa left the project. Despite this, Clemons was still expected to make an appearance as the same character in the Justice League movie; however, their parts were eventually omitted from the theatrical version. When Zack Snyder's Justice League was ultimately re-released in 2021 as part of the Snyder Cut, it included Clemons' deleted parts from the 2017 Justice League film. Clemons signed a new contract in March 2021 to play Iris in The Flash, which is now being directed by Andy Muschietti.
2 Sweetheart
A castaway named Jennifer, played by Clemons, washes up on an island in the 2019 survival horror movie Sweetheart. She must survive there while an anthropomorphic sea creature (Andrew Crawford) stalks her. As Mia, Lucas, and Brad, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence, Emory Cohen, and Benedict Samuel also co-star, respectively. The movie has a 93% approval rating and an average score of 7.00/10 on Rotten Tomatoes. "Sweetheart combines clever subtext and social critique against effective genre thrills," according to the site's critics' consensus.
1 Dope
Dope is a 2015 coming-of-age comedy-drama movie about a nerd named Malcolm (Shameik Moore) who struggles to survive life in The Bottoms, a rough area of Inglewood, California, that is home to drug dealers and gangsters, while also balancing his senior year of college applications, interviews, and the SATs. His goal is to enroll in Harvard. A fortuitous invitation to a large underground party sends Malcolm and his buddies Jib (Tony Revolori) and Diggy (Clemons) on a gritty journey, in the vein of Los Angeles, complete with eccentric personalities and poor decisions. If Malcolm can endure, he will eventually transform from a nerd, to a dope person, and finally into his true self. According to The Wrap, in a reference to the movie's own premise, Dope was also the first movie to take bitcoins for ticket purchases at more than 900 theaters in the USA.