Pom Klementieff

Pom Klementieff (born 3 May 1986) is a French actress. She was a student at the Cours Florent drama school, Paris. She has appeared in movies such as Loup 2009, Sleepless Night 2011 and Hacker's Game 2015. She is the Mantis character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (1999). Pom Klementieff was raised in Quebec City to a Korean father and a French-Russian wife. He was employed as consul with the French government. Her father was a painter Eugene Klementieff. Because it sounds similar to the Korean words for "spring" or "tiger", her parents gave their daughter the name Pom. Klementieff was an American citizen for a single year. Her family had traveled extensively due to her father's work. Prior to moving to France the family lived in Japan as well as on the Ivory Coast. Klementieff's father, who died from cancer at age 5 was also her mother. Additionally, she suffered from schizophrenia and was unable to care for her children. Klementieff was raised with her aunt and paternal uncle. Her uncle, whom she said in her own words as "like her first father," died on Klementieff’s 18th birthday. The older brother of her was killed seven years later. This time, it happened on her 25th. Klementieff was able to briefly go to law school following the passing of her uncle, but she was not able to find this job path attractive. She also worked as a waitress and saleswoman in France. She began acting at age 19 in the Cours Florent drama school in Paris. It was only two months in her studies when she won a theater contest that granted the opportunity to take two years of free classes 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 step-daughter of the main character, Catherine Deneuve. The filming process was a three-day process. Klementieff was to push another person down a staircase however she fell down. Gael Mostl kept the shot in the final film. Her first role as a lead actor was in Loup (2009), a French film that follows a tribe of reindeer herders located in the Siberian mountains. In the course of filming, she stayed in a campthat was a few hours away from the nearest village where temperatures dropped below zero.