[1] In 2009, before graduating from WAAPA, Clanton had her feature film debut playing Leah in the comedy Stone Bros., before being a main cast member in the TV series Ben Elton Live from Planet Earth in 2011.
This was followed by playing Adrianna in a season of The Comedy of Errors and Ariel in The Tempest with the Shakespeare WA.
[1] Clanton has starred in multiple television series, including Redfern Now (1 episode, 2012) and Wentworth (2013–2017), where she was the youngest member of the main cast.
[9] In 2023, she plays Ruby, a ranger who becomes the main character's friend, in the award-winning miniseries The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart on Amazon Prime Video.
[12] In February 2018 Clanton appeared on an episode of the ABC Television show Q+A, where she said Indigenous voices deserved a place in parliament.