Pom Klementieff
Birthdate: May 3, 1986 (40 Years Old)
Birthplace: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Pom Klementieff is a rising actor best known for her role as Mantis in several Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, including Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). Klementieff’s career began in French cinema in director Gaël Morel’s After Him (2007) starring Catherine Deneuve, followed by a supporting role in Jean-Paul Rouve’s caper movie, The Easy Way (2008).
The next significant movie for Klementieff was the rom-com, Delicacy (2011), starring Audrey Tautou, and then supporting roles in writer-director Frédéric Jardin’s thriller, Sleepless Nights (2011); writer-director Frédéric Beigbeder’s comedy, Love Lasts Three Years (2011); writer-director Romain Levy’s comedy, Radiostars (2012); and writer-director Franck Gastambide’s sex comedy, Porn in the Hood (2012).
Pom Klementieff’s first role in a major international film (and one of her few as a Korean character) was under Spike Lee’s direction in his English-language remake of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 action movie, Oldboy (2013), starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, and Samuel L. Jackson, and which bombed at the box office with a poor $5.2 million return on a $30 million budget.
The second English-language movie for Klementieff was director-producer Drake Doremus’s drama, Newness (2017), starring Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa, and premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. Another Sundance premiere for Klementieff was writer-director Matt Spicer’s comedy-drama, Ingrid Goes West (2017), starring Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, and O’Shea Jackson Jr., which earned $3.3 million for distributor Neon.
The career breakthrough for Pom Klementieff soon followed when writer-director James Gunn cast her as Mantis in writer-director James Gunn’s hit sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), as she played opposite the colorful cast of Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Kurt Russell, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, and Sylvester Stallone, and grossing a whopping $869 million globally.
This success locked in Klementieff as Mantis for several other Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbusters, including Anthony and Joe Russo’s paired megahits Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019), as well as Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), with Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson, Russell Crowe, and Natalie Portman. Klementieff returned as Mantis in Gunn’s franchise sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), with new cast members Elizabeth Debicki, Maria Bakalova, and Sylvester Stallone.
Non-MCU movies for Klementieff during this period started most notably with Benny and Josh Safdie’s superb drama-comedy, Uncut Gems (2019), starring Adam Sandler, LaKeith Stanfield, Kevin Garnett, Idina Menzel, and Eric Bogosian, and grossing a robust $50 million (on a $19 million budget). An even bigger hit in which Klementieff earned a supporting role was the animated big-screen version of The Addams Family (2019), with the voices of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Snoop Dogg, Bette Midler, and Allison Janney, and grossing a big $203.7 million globally, on a $24 million budget.
Klementieff then scored a role in another franchise, as the secondary villain in writer-director Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Parts One (2023) and Two (2024), starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Venessa Kirby, and Henry Czerny.
Personal life
Pom Klementieff Movies
Director
Previous (1)
- 2024 |
Despicable Me 4
asDirector
Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith, and Agnes welcome a new member to the family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his girlfriend Valentina, and the family is forced to go on the run.
Actor
Previous (10)
- 2025 |
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
asParis
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.
- 2024 |
The Killer's Game
asMarianna
When a hitman is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take a hit out on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired also target his ex-girlfriend, he must fend off an army of assassin colleagues.
- 2023 |
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
asParis
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
- 2023 |
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
asParisMission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
- 2023 |
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
asMantis
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own - a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful.
- 2022 |
Thor: Love and Thunder
asMantis
Thor enlists the help of Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster to fight Gorr the God Butcher, who intends to make the gods extinct.
- 2019 |
Uncut Gems
asLexis
With his debts mounting and angry collectors closing in, a fast-talking New York City jeweler risks everything in hope of staying afloat and alive.
- 2017 |
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
asMantis
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The Guardians struggle to keep together as a team while dealing with their personal family issues, notably Star-Lord's encounter with his father, the ambitious celestial being Ego.
- 2017 |
Ingrid Goes West
asHarley Chung
After her release from a psychiatric ward, a woman obsessed with social media moves to LA to stalk an Instagram star, but her plan takes a dark turn.
- -- | as Harley Chung
