Pom Klementieff

Pom Klementieff was born on May 3rd, 1986. She was trained at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris and has appeared in such films as Loup (2009), Sleepless Night (2011) and Hacker's Game (2015). She plays the role of Mantis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Pom Klementieff was born in Quebec City to a Korean father and French-Russian mother. He was employed as a consul for the French government. Eugene Klementieff, a painter was her grandfather. Because it is a resemblance to the Korean words for "spring" or "tiger", her parents gave their daughter the name Pom. The actress spent a year in Canada before her family moved throughout the world because of her father's work. Prior to moving to France the family lived in Japan and on the Ivory Coast. Klementieff lost her father to cancer at the age of five. Her mother was also diagnosed with schizophrenia. Klementieff was raised in France by her aunt and paternal uncle. Her uncle, whom she described as "like her second father" passed away on her 18th birthday and her older brother took his own life just seven years after, but this time on her 25th birthday. After the passing of her uncle, Klementieff was a law student for a brief time to delight her aunt. However, she did not find the career path appealing. She was also an waitress in France and a saleswoman. She began acting at age 19 at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris. She was just a few months into her studies when she won a theater contest that granted her two years of class with some of the most renowned teachers in the school. Klementieff was the first person to perform professionally in the independent French film Apres lui (2007). She played the role of the step-daughter of the main character Catherine Deneuve. The filming process was a three-day process. In one scene, she was supposed to push a person down the stairs but accidentally fell down the steps herself, as did director Gael Morel kept that shot in the final film. Her first lead role was in Loup (2009) the French film that follows a tribe of reindeer herders who live in the Siberian mountains. While filming, Klementieff was in a camping area, which was hours away from the nearest village where temperatures dropped to below freezing.