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 appeared in such films as Loup (2009), Sleepless Night (2011) and Hacker's Game (2015). She is the voice 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 raised in Quebec City to a Korean father and a French-Russian mom. He was working as a consul for the French government. Eugene Klementieff was her grandfather. Her parents chose the name "Pom" due to the fact that it's like the Korean words for both "spring" as well as "tiger". Klementieff was a Canadian citizen for a single year. Her family had traveled extensively as a result of her father's work. Before moving to France they resided in Japan and on the Ivory Coast. Klementieff's father, who died in the age of five from cancer was her mother. Also, she was suffering from schizophrenia and couldn't care for her kids. Klementieff was raised with her aunt and paternal uncle. Her uncle, whom she described as "like her father" died when she turned 18 and her brother, who was older, committed suicide seven years after, but this occasion being her birthday. Klementieff briefly attended law school after the death of her uncle in order to placate her aunt, but did not find the career choice appealing. Also, she worked as a waitress in France and a saleswoman. Her first acting experience began when she was just 19 at the Cours Florent theatre school in Paris. She was just three months in her studies when she was awarded an audition for a stage show that gave the opportunity to take two years of free classes with the school's best teachers. Klementieff was the first person to perform professionally in the independent French film Apres lui (2007). She played the role of the step-daughter of the lead character, Catherine Deneuve. The filming process took three days. In one scene, she was to be pushed down a flight of stairs but fell down the stairs herself as did director Gael Morel recorded that scene in the film. Loup (2009) was her first leading role in a film. It's an French movie that tells the story of a tribe of Siberian mountain reindeer herders. Klementieff was filming in the camp that was located hours away from the nearest village. The camp was where temperatures dropped to minus.