Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1729
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Pom Klementieff 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.
Pom Klementieff appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Pom. Avengers: Endgame is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 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 comedy, music, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Timo Tjahjanto, James Gunn, Christopher McQuarrie and others, Pom Klementieff 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.
Avengers: Endgame (2019) as Mantis · Avengers: Infinity War (2018) as Mantis · Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) as Mantis
Career snapshot
Ranked #1729 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
2013–2027
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
Avengers: Endgame
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Avengers: Endgame
Most frequent director
James Gunn
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With James Gunn
Most common genre
Action
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
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
6.5
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Avengers: Endgame, The Addams Family, Uncut Gems — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
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. Avengers: Endgame, The Addams Family, Uncut Gems.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 6.63 films | — |
| Action | 8.33 films | 6.39 films |
| Thriller | 6.62 films | 5.25 films |
| Comedy | 6.52 films | 5.56 films |
| Crime | 7.21 film | 0.01 film |
| Romance | 6.11 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Oldboy
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Haeng-Bok.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.5 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
2027The Beekeeper 2
The current state of the argument.
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.
22 of 22 films
as Mantis
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Mantis
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Mantis
Directed by James Gunn
as Mantis
Directed by James Gunn
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
Mantis
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mantis gives Pom Klementieff a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mantis
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Performance score8.2
Avengers: Infinity War asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mantis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mantis
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Performance score8.1
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mantis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King (2020)
Performance score7.8
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self 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 Mantis
Start here. Avengers: Endgame is the clearest statement of what Pom Klementieff does — accessible, 181 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Pom 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.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Keeps the action register of Avengers: Endgame but asks for a colder reading of it.
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Keeps the action register of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Avengers: Infinity War — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
James Gunn
Director
5 films together
Notably Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Anthony Russo
Director
2 films together
Notably Avengers: Endgame
Christopher McQuarrie
Director
2 films together
Notably Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Spike Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Oldboy
Matt Spicer
Director
1 film together
Notably Ingrid Goes West
Benny Safdie
Director
1 film together
Notably Uncut Gems
Conrad Vernon
Director
1 film together
Notably The Addams Family
Ben Falcone
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunder Force
Taika Waititi
Director
1 film together
Notably Thor: Love and Thunder
Brad Baruh
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
J.J. Perry
Director
1 film together
Notably The Killer's Game
Timo Tjahjanto
Director
1 film together
Notably The Beekeeper 2
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
James Gunn
Director
5 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3Anthony Russo
Director
2 films together · 8.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Avengers: EndgameChristopher McQuarrie
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part OneBenny Safdie
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Uncut GemsTaika Waititi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thor: Love and ThunderConrad Vernon
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 Addams FamilyJ.J. Perry
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Killer's GameBrad Baruh
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Matt Spicer
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ingrid Goes WestSpike Lee
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OldboyBen Falcone
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thunder ForceTimo Tjahjanto
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Beekeeper 2Six 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
Avengers: Infinity War
as Mantis
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Newness
as Bethany
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Avengers: Infinity War
as Mantis
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Suicide Squad
as La Gatita Amable Dancer (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Avengers: Endgame
as Mantis
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. Pom Klementieff 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
12 catalogue titles in action, 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
Avengers: Endgame
as Mantis
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Avengers: Infinity War
as Mantis
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Newness
as Bethany
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Oldboy
as Haeng-Bok
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Avengers: Endgame
as Mantis
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
as Paris
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
High in the Clouds
as Mina (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Avengers: Endgame
as Mantis
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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