Pom Klementieff

Pom Klementieff is an actress from France, French actress, was born 3 May 1986. She was trained at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris and has been featured in films like Loup (2009), Sleepless Night (2011) and Hacker's Game (2015). She portrays the role of Mantis, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. (2017). Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Avengers: Endgame (2019). Pom Klementieff was the daughter of the Korean mother, and a father who was French-Russian. Her father was a consul of Quebec City, Canada. Her father was a painter Eugene Klementieff. Pom was her nickname because it sounds similar to the Korean words "spring" and 'tiger" in Korean. Klementieff lived in Canada for one year before her family was able to travel extensively because of her father's job. They resided in Japan and the Ivory Coast, before settling in France. Klementieff's father, who died in the age of five from cancer was her mother. Additionally, she suffered from schizophrenia and was unable to care for her children. Klementieff was raised with her paternal uncle and aunt. Her uncle, who she stated in her own words as "like her father from childhood," died on Klementieff’s 18th birthday. Her older brother died seven years after his death. This occasion, it occurred on the 25th anniversary of her birth. Klementieff was a student at law school for a short time after the death of her uncle in order to placate her aunt, but did not find the academic option attractive. In France, she worked as a waitresse and saleswoman. At the Cours Florent drama academy in Paris she started her acting career when she was 19. In the early stages of her training, she was awarded a theater competition that awarded her classes for two years with the school's best teachers. Her first acting gig professionally was the French independent film Apres lui (2007), acting as the stepdaughter in the film of the main character, which was played by Catherine Deneuve. The production of the film took three days. In one scene, she was to help push someone down a set of steps but accidentally fell down the steps herself, and director Gael Morel recorded that scene in the 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. She filmed for hours in an isolated camp, far from the closest village. The temperatures dropped to minus zero during filming.