Pom Klementieff

Pom Klementieff was born 3 May 1986. She was a student at the Cours Florent drama school, Paris. She has appeared in films 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 the child of two parents: a Korean mother, and an American-Russian father. Her father was consul in Quebec City, Canada. 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. The actress spent a year in Canada prior to moving her family throughout the world due to her father's job. They lived in Japan as well as the Ivory Coast, before settling in France. Her father, who passed away in the age of five from cancer was also her mother. She also suffered from schizophrenia and was unable to care for her children. Klementieff was raised with her paternal uncle and aunt. Her uncle, who she described as "like [her] father" died when she was age 18. Her brother, who was older who took his own life seven years later, was her aunt. Klementieff briefly attended law school after the death of her uncle in order to appease her aunt but didn't find the profession option appealing. She also worked as salesperson and waitress in France. She began acting when she was 19and attended the Cours Florent theatre school in Paris. A few months into her training, she was awarded the competition for theater, which gave her free tuition for two years at the school's most prestigious teachers. Her first acting gig professionally was the French independent film Apres lui (2007), portraying the stepdaughter of the lead character, played by Catherine Deneuve. The filming took place over three days to capture her scenes. During one scene, Klementieff was to help push someone down a set of stairs but she fell her way down the stairs, as did director Gael Morel used that scene in the final film. Loup (2009) was her first lead role in a film. It is a French film about a group of Siberian mountain reindeer herders. She was filming in the middle of a camp located at a distance from the closest village. The camp was where temperatures dropped to minus.