The profile · Actor; Mantis and Mission: Impossible’s Paris
Pom Klementieff
A drama-school scholarship, a gentle alien, and the physical discipline behind an action-film turn.
The person behind the work
A competition changed the next step
Pom Klementieff began studying acting at the Cours Florent in Paris when she was 19. A teacher encouraged her to enter a theater competition, and winning gave her two years of free classes. It is a concrete turning point in a career that later became international: training was not just an idea but something she could afford to continue.[2][3]
Her early screen work included Après lui, with Catherine Deneuve. Klementieff has recalled feeling nervous about a difficult scene and receiving kindness from the older actor. The detail gives an ordinary human scale to the start of a career. Long before major action films, there were classes, unfamiliar sets, and moments when another person’s encouragement mattered.[2]
A career in range
Selected work, at a glance
2017
Ingrid Goes West
Harley Chung
A smaller ensemble film alongside her better-known franchise work.[1]
2017
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Mantis
Her introduction as a character whose empathy shapes the story.[1]
2018
Avengers: Infinity War
Mantis
She joins a larger ensemble without losing the character’s distinct manner.[1]
2023
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning
Paris
A turn toward forceful physical action and relatively few words.[3]
2025
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
Paris
The role continues in the next Mission: Impossible film.[3]
The person behind the work
Two very different kinds of screen presence
As Mantis, Klementieff uses an open face, unusual timing, and a character’s emotional sensitivity. Paris, her role in Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning and The Final Reckoning, works differently. Much of the character’s presence comes through movement and action rather than long dialogue. The contrast is a better introduction to her range than treating either franchise as her whole identity.[3][1]
In a French interview before The Final Reckoning, she spoke about Tom Cruise’s drive to push the film further. Her career now includes French drama, American independent films, comedy, and large action productions. Ingrid Goes West is one of the smaller films in that list, while Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 introduced the role most viewers first associate with her.[3][1]
A closer look
Three ways into the work
Après lui
An early place to begin if you want to see the career before large American productions. Klementieff’s memory of Deneuve’s encouragement also reveals how much a first set can teach.[2]
Ingrid Goes West
Its scale helps put her filmography in perspective. A performer can move between a small modern comedy and effects-driven productions without having one kind of work cancel out the other.[1]
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning
Paris offers the sharpest contrast with Mantis. Pay attention to how much is conveyed through stance, speed, and reaction instead of a long explanation of the character.[3]
Family background and belief
Keeping the personal story accurate
Klementieff was born in Canada to a Korean mother and a French father. Neither that background nor Mantis’s fictional powers tells us what she believes about God. The interviews cited here offer a clearer picture of training, courage, and support from fellow performers than of a personal religion. Leaving that boundary in place respects both the actor and the reader.[1][2]
Listen to the person
In their own words
2018 interview
“I saw it as a form of escapism”
Famous Faith’s Christian perspective
Beyond the Spotlight
A teacher’s encouragement and an older actor’s kindness appear in Klementieff’s account of learning her craft. Small acts of care can shape a life. Christians see love of neighbor as something to practice in those ordinary moments, not merely a feeling to praise in a story. That includes the people who are nervous, new, or easy to overlook.
Love also asks us to face the ways we fail. The Ten Commandments forbid lying, stealing, and coveting what belongs to another person (Exodus 20). We can break those commands in quiet daily choices, not only in a dramatic crime. First John 3:4 describes sin as breaking God’s law. Jesus spoke about judgment and hell because our relationship with God matters. That truth calls for concern and humility, never cruel guesses about another person’s future.
The good news is that God has shown love to people who cannot repair their own record. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, lived without sin, died on the cross for sinners, and rose bodily from the dead. Through him God offers forgiveness and new life. We receive that gift by grace through faith. Kindness and good works matter, but they cannot buy salvation (Ephesians 2:8–10).
Repentance gives our mind and heart a new direction: away from sin and rebellion, toward God. Instead of pushing him away, we learn to trust who he is and the love he has shown in Jesus. It normally changes behavior. A person may become quicker to apologize, more truthful, and more willing to care for others. Growth takes time, and forgiveness is the starting place rather than a prize for getting everything right.
You do not need a public platform to respond. You can come to Christ with an honest account of your life, ask for forgiveness, and begin learning his way. A patient church and a careful reading of the Gospels can help. The invitation is personal, hopeful, and open to people whose background is very different from one another.
Consider the Good Person Test and the hope of forgiveness →
This section shares Famous Faith’s Christian beliefs. It does not speak for Pom Klementieff.
People connected to the story
Follow the connections
From the directory
Tom Cruise
They work together in the final two Mission: Impossible films.[3]
Read the profile →Sources and further reading
- Pom Klementieff: biography and filmography
- Harper’s Bazaar Malaysia: Pom Klementieff interview
- TF1: Klementieff on Mission: Impossible and her training
Artwork: Original AI-generated portrait of Pom Klementieff, created for Famous Faith; not a photograph. The other AI-generated portraits shown here were also created for Famous Faith. No endorsement is implied.
Film and book titles identify the works discussed. A career credit is not a recommendation that every reader watch or read that work.