Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4514
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kiersey Clemons works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Kiersey Clemons appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kiersey. Zack Snyder's Justice League is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Amy Landecker, Stephanie Allynne, Andy Muschietti and others, Kiersey Clemons helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) as Iris West · Scoob! (2020) as Dee Dee Skyes (voice) · Rent (2019) as Joanne Jefferson
Career snapshot
Ranked #4514 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Most frequent director
Amy Landecker
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Amy Landecker
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 52m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.2
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Sweetheart, Rent, Flatliners — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Sweetheart, Rent, Flatliners.
Most productive era
2020s
10 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.23 films | 5.45 films |
| Action | — | 6.53 films |
| Thriller | 5.71 film | 5.12 films |
| Comedy | 5.81 film | 5.95 films |
| Romance | — | 5.73 films |
| Horror | 6.12 films | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Beth.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Zack Snyder's Justice League
8.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026For Worse
The current state of the argument, as Maria.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
15 of 15 films
as Iris West
Directed by Zack Snyder
as Dee Dee Skyes (voice)
Directed by Tony Cervone
as Joanne Jefferson
Directed by Alex Rudzinski
as Brittany
Directed by Stephanie Allynne
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Iris West
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Iris West gives Kiersey Clemons a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jenn
Sweetheart (2019)
Performance score7.1
Sweetheart asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jenn is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dee Dee Skyes (voice)
Scoob! (2020)
Performance score6.9
Scoob! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dee Dee Skyes (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Joanne Jefferson
Rent (2019)
Performance score6.9
Rent asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joanne Jefferson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Iris West
Start here. Zack Snyder's Justice League is the clearest statement of what Kiersey Clemons does — accessible, 242 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kiersey at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Sweetheart (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Zack Snyder's Justice League — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Rent (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Sweetheart — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Scoob! (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Rent — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Am I OK? (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Scoob! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
Marc Webb
Director
1 film together
Notably The Only Living Boy in New York
Niels Arden Oplev
Director
1 film together
Notably Flatliners
Alex Rudzinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Rent
J.D. Dillard
Director
1 film together
Notably Sweetheart
Tony Cervone
Director
1 film together
Notably Scoob!
Zack Snyder
Director
1 film together
Notably Zack Snyder's Justice League
Sophie Kargman
Director
1 film together
Notably Susie Searches
Dave Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably Somebody I Used to Know
Tayarisha Poe
Director
1 film together
Notably The Young Wife
Andy Muschietti
Director
1 film together
Notably The Flash
Stephanie Allynne
Director
1 film together
Notably Am I OK?
Amy Landecker
Director
1 film together
Notably For Worse
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Zack Snyder
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zack Snyder's Justice LeagueTony Cervone
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scoob!Alex Rudzinski
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RentAndy Muschietti
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FlashStephanie Allynne
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Am I OK?J.D. Dillard
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SweetheartMarc Webb
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Only Living Boy in New YorkDave Franco
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Somebody I Used to KnowNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Neighbors 2: Sorority RisingNiels Arden Oplev
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FlatlinersSophie Kargman
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Susie SearchesTayarisha Poe
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Young WifeAmy Landecker
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
For WorseSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Rent
as Joanne Jefferson
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Am I OK?
as Brittany
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Iris West
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Iris West
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Iris West
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Kiersey Clemons has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Iris West
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Iris West
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
For Worse
as Maria
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Susie Searches
as Susie Wallis
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Iris West
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Flash
as Iris West
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Am I OK?
as Brittany
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Iris West
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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