Pom Klementieff

Pom Klementieff was born 3 May 1986. She was a student at the Cours Florent drama school, Paris. She has been in movies such as 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) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Pom Klementieff was born in Quebec City, Canada, to an Korean mother and a French-Russian father who was employed in the city as a consul for the French government. Eugene Klementieff was her grandfather. Her parents picked the name "Pom" because it's identical in pronunciation to Korean words for "spring" and "tiger". Klementieff lived in Canada for one year before her family travelled extensively because of her father's job. They resided in Japan as well as the Ivory Coast, before settling in France. Her father was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 5 and her mother suffered from schizophrenia and was unable to care for children as a result, and Klementieff was raised by her paternal uncle and aunt. Her uncle, whom she described as "like [her] second father" died on her 18th birthday, as did her older brother, who was killed just seven years after, this time on her 25th birthday. Klementieff briefly attended law school after the death of her uncle in order to appease her aunt but did not find the career choice attractive. She was also a waitress and saleswoman in France. She began acting when she was 19years old at the Cours Florent theatre school in Paris. It was only a few months in her studies when she was awarded an acting contest which gave her two years of tuition with the best teachers at the school. Klementieff was the first actress to perform professionally in the independent French film Apres lui (2007). She played the step-daughter of the protagonist, Catherine Deneuve. Three days were spent filming her scenes. In one scene, Klementieff was to be pushed down a flight of stairs but accidentally fell down the stairs herself, and director Gael Morel kept that shot in the film. Loup (2009) was her first lead role in a film. It is a French movie about a tribe in Siberian mountain reindeer herders. Klementieff filmed for hours at an isolated camp away from the closest village. Temperatures dropped to minus zero while filming.