Kiersey Clemons

Kiersey Clemons is a queer actress who has been open about her identity in various interviews, describing her sexuality in fluid and personal terms that resist rigid categorization. She broke out in the indie film "Dope" (2015) as Diggy, a gay girl navigating high school with self-possessed confidence — one of the more naturalistic portrayals of a young queer Black woman in recent American indie film. She went on to appear in queer stories including Joe Swanberg's "Easy" and "Hearts Beat Loud" (2018), a tender father-daughter story in which she played a young woman beginning a relationship with another woman. Her other credits include "Flower" (2017), "Flatliners" (2017), and "Zack Snyder's Justice League" (2021), in which she made history as the first Black actress to play Iris West in a live-action DC production. Clemons has spoken about the importance of queer representation in genre film and about her own ongoing relationship with her identity — a process she describes as evolving rather than fixed. She is a consistently interesting presence in American independent cinema.