Pom Klementieff is a French actress best known for her role as Mantis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film series. She made her film debut in 2007 in the French independent film Life After Him. A few years later, she starred in several Hollywood films that made the actress recognizable all over the world.
Short biography
French actress Pom Clementieff was born on May 3, 1986, in Quebec, Canada. Her father, Alexis Clementieff, who has both French and Russian roots, was an employee of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Immediately at the time of the birth of his daughter Pom, he was serving as consul in Quebec.
There is little information about the mother of the actress. She is known to be of Korean descent. Therefore, it is not surprising that the name Pom Klementieff is consonant with the Korean words “spring” and “tiger”.
Shortly after the birth of the actress, her father was sent to work in Japan. So, one-year-old Pom moved to the “land of the rising sun”, and then the Klementieff family settled on the coast of Cote D’Ivoire. And only a few years later they finally settled in France, where the girl was growing up. However, it was here that Pom and her loved ones faced very difficult life trials.
At the age of five, she lost her father, who had been struggling with an incurable disease for a long time. And the mother of the actress was diagnosed with schizophrenia, because of which she could no longer take care of her children. Pom and her brother were sent to the home of their paternal uncle and his wife, who replaced their parents.
On the day of her eighteenth birthday, Klementieff lost another loved one, her uncle passed away.
The widowed Aunt Pom wanted her to become a lawyer. The girl did not have much interest in this profession. But the desire to make her aunt happy prevailed. She went to law college. However, Klementieff soon dropped out of school and finally decided to focus on the profession of an actress.
At the age of nineteen, she began taking courses at one of the most prestigious theater schools in France, Cours Florent, which is located in Paris. A few months later, Pom won first place in a theater competition. This victory allowed her to study free of charge with the best teachers in the school for two years.
Pom Klementieff made confident progress in her professional career, but in her personal life, she had to go through another family tragedy. On her twenty-fifth birthday, her older brother committed suicide.
Career and creativity
Before her acting career, Pom Klementieff worked as a waitress and salesperson. In 2007, she made her professional debut in the French independent film Life After Him. Pom played a girl named Emily, who is the stepdaughter of the main character played by Catherine Deneuve.
A year later, Klementieff appeared in Jean-Paul Rouve’s biopic No Evil, No Blood, No Barrel (2008), which was based on the life story of a real-life robber Albert Spajari.
And in 2009, her first major role happened in her cinematic career. French director Nicolas Vanier invited the actress to play a heroine named Nastasya in his dramatic film The Wolf. Klementieff harmoniously blended into the image of one of the members of the Evenk tribe, who lead their life in the harsh conditions of the Siberian mountains and the overwhelming power of the endless wilderness.
In the same year, she appeared in seven episodes of the French television series “Night Pigalle”, where she played a girl named Sandra. To date, this role is the only television work of the actress.
In 2010, Klementieff acted in only one short film “Qu’est-ce qu’on fait?”, And a year later she played different characters in five films at once. In the action movie Loyal Businesswoman, she appeared as a girl named Naomi, in the crime thriller Sleepless Night, the actress played Lucy. This was followed by the role of a waitress in the romantic comedy Tenderness (2011), Julia in the film Love Lives Three Years and Valerie in the drama Silhouettes.
In 2013, Pom Klementieff made her Hollywood debut. She played Heng-Bok in the thriller Oldboy, which is an American adaptation of the South Korean film of the same name. After this work, the actress decided to move to Los Angeles, California to continue her film career in America.
She later starred in films such as Ingrid Goes West (2017), and Guardians of the Galaxy. Part 2 “(2017),” Avengers: Infinity War “(2018), and” Avengers: Endgame “(2019), which made the French actress recognizable all over the world.
Pom Klementieff continues to actively act in films. Soon, the actress can be seen in the movies – Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8, Guardians of the Galaxy. Part 3 “and others.
