Pom Klementieff

Pom Klementieff (born 3 May 1986) is a French actress from France. She received her training at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris and has been featured in such films as Loup (2009), Sleepless Night (2011) and Hacker's Game (2015). She plays 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 born in Quebec City, Canada, to an Korean mother and a French-Russian father who was employed as a consul there for the French government. Eugene Klementieff, a painter was her grandfather. Pom was her name due to the fact that it is a symphony of the Korean words "spring" and "tiger" in Korean. Klementieff spent one year in Canada before her family moved frequently because of her father's occupation. Before making the move to France the family resided in Japan and on the Ivory Coast. Klementieff lost her father to cancer around age five. Her mother was also diagnosed with schizophrenia. Klementieff was raised in France by her paternal uncle and aunt. Her uncle, who she called "like [her] father" died at the age of age 18. Klementieff's older brother who committed suicide years later, was also her aunt. Klementieff was a student at law school for a short time after the death of her uncle in order to please her aunt, but didn't find the profession path appealing. In France, she worked as a salesperson and waitress. She started acting at age 19 at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris. She was just a few months in studying when she was awarded a theater contest that granted the opportunity to take two years of free classes with the school's best teachers. Klementieff was the stepdaughter of Catherine Deneuve in Apres lui (2006) which was her first acting job professionally. The filming process took three days. In one scene, she was supposed to push someone down a flight of stairs but fell down the steps herself, as did director Gael Morel kept that shot for the final film. Loup (2009) was her first lead role in a film. It is an French movie about a tribe of Siberian mountain reindeer herders. In the course of filming, she stayed in a tent, a long way away from the nearest village in which temperatures fell to well below zero