With a penchant for history and bilingual language skills in English and German, Klemens is often seen and heard in historical and period drama roles and has portrayed such diverse British, German and Austrian historical characters as Sigmund Freud, Gerrard Winstanley, Benjamin Disraeli, Alfred Tennyson, Isaac Newton, Walter Raleigh, Richard Cobden, John Pym, Richard Price, Gottlob Bidermann, Karl Mauch, and August Gissler.
Klemens provided the voiceover narration of the commandant (Rudolf Höss) in the acclaimed historical documentary The Commandant's Shadow, which was shown in more than a thousand cinemas across North America, Germany, the UK and France from May 2024. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it has been streaming in the U.S. on HBO/Max and in the UK on Sky Documentaries. It ranked #14 in The Guardian's 50 best films of 2024 in the UK.
You can hear Klemens in the epic historical audio drama series Unsinkable as various German submarine and ship officer and sailor characters alongside a stellar cast including John Malkovich and Brian Cox.
Klemens grew up in Germany and has also lived in the United States, Singapore and the United Kingdom, where he has been based for the majority of the past 21 years. After graduating from the University of Bedfordshire with a BA Honours First Class in Media Performance, he went on to train in the Michael Chekhov Technique with Graham Dixon and Sarah Kane at the Michael Chekhov Studio London, obtained a Diploma in Voice-Overs from the London Academy of Media, Film & TV and trained in presenting with Brian Naylor at the TV Training Academy (Pinewood Studios). He also undertook training in acting and voice in the UK and Singapore with such renowned coaches as Dave Fennoy, Dian Perry, Yvonne Morley, Stephane Cornicard and Terence Crawford.
