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Pom Alexandra Klementieff (French: [pɔm klemɑ̃tjɛf];[1] born 3 May 1986[2]) is a French actress and model. She was trained at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris and appeared in such French films as The Easy Way (2008) and Sleepless Night (2011), before making her American film debut in Oldboy (2013).

Pom Klementieff
Klementieff in 2019
Born	Pom Alexandra Klementieff (1986-05-03) 3 May 1986 (age 36) Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Citizenship	France
Education	Cours Florent
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2007–present
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Klementieff received worldwide recognition for her role as Mantis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). She will also reprise the role in the upcoming television film The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) and the upcoming film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023).

Early life

Pom Klementieff was born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, to a Korean mother and Russian-French father Alexis Klementieff,[3][4] who was working there as a consul with the government of France. She is a French citizen, but does not have Canadian citizenship because jus soli does not apply to children of diplomats.[5][6][7] Her grandfather was the Russian painter Eugene Klementieff.[8] Her parents chose the name "Pom" because it is similar in pronunciation to the Korean words for both "spring" (봄) and "tiger" (범).[6] Klementieff lived in Canada for one year before her family began travelling extensively due to her father's job.[9] They lived in Japan and Ivory Coast, before settling in France.

Klementieff's father died of cancer when she was five, and her mother had schizophrenia and was unable to care for children,[6] so Klementieff was raised by her paternal uncle and aunt.[5] Her uncle, whom she described as "like [her] second father", died on her 18th birthday, and her older brother Namou died by suicide seven years later, on her 25th birthday.[6][10] Klementieff briefly attended law school after her uncle's death to appease her aunt but did not find the career path appealing. She also worked as a waitress and saleswoman in France.[6] She started acting at age 19 at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris. A few months into her education, she won a theatre competition that awarded her free classes for two years with the school's top teachers.[9]

Career

2007–2012: Early career

Klementieff's first professional acting job was the French independent film Après lui (2007), portraying the stepdaughter of the protagonist played by Catherine Deneuve.[5] Filming for her scenes took three days. During one scene, Klementieff was supposed to push someone down a set of stairs but accidentally fell down the stairs herself, and director Gaël Morel kept that shot in the final film.

Her first leading role was in Loup (2009), a French film about a tribe of reindeer herders in the Siberian mountains. During filming, Klementieff stayed in a camp, hours from the nearest village, where temperatures dropped well below zero. During filming she befriended nomads who lived there, worked with real wolves, rode reindeer, and swam with a horse in a lake.[9]

2013: Breakthrough

Klementieff made her Hollywood debut in Spike Lee's Oldboy (2013), a remake of the South Korean film of the same name.[9][11] She portrayed Haeng-bok, the bodyguard of the antagonist played by Sharlto Copley. A fan of the original film, Klementieff heard about the part through Roy Lee, a producer with the remake, and took boxing lessons after learning the role involved martial arts. After showcasing her boxing skills during her audition, Lee asked her to go home and come back wearing a more feminine outfit and make-up, like her character in the film.[5][6] She contributed some of her own clothes to the character's wardrobe,[5] and trained three hours a day for two months for an on-screen fight with star Josh Brolin.[5][11] Klementieff came up with the name Haeng-bok, Korean for "happiness", herself after Lee asked her to research possible names for the character.[5][9]

Klementieff moved to Los Angeles after Oldboy was filmed and began pursuing more Hollywood auditions.[5][9] She continued taekwondo after the film, and has a purple belt as of the summer of 2014.[5] Her next acting role was the film Hacker's Game (2015), in which she plays a hacker she compared to Lisbeth Salander from the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Klementieff used her boxing skills again in the film, and due to the movie's low budget, she had to do her own make-up and choose her own wardrobe.[9] It was her idea to dye her hair purple for the role, to which the directors first objected but later acquiesced.[5] In 2017, she appeared in the romance drama Newness and the black comedy-drama Ingrid Goes West.

Klementieff received worldwide recognition when she joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Mantis, appearing in the films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019).[12] In 2019, she appeared in an episode of the Netflix science fiction anthology series Black Mirror, the thriller film Uncut Gems, and had voice roles in the animated supernatural comedy film The Addams Family. In 2020, she had a recurring role as Martel in the HBO science fiction series Westworld.

Filmography

Film

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2007	After Him	Emilie	Gaël Morel
2008	The Easy Way	NHI	Jean-Paul Rouve
2009	Loup	Nastazya	Nicolas Vanier
2011	Borderline	Naomi	Alexandre Coffre
	Delicacy	The Waitress	David & Stéphane Foenkinos
	Sleepless Night	Lucy	Frédéric Jardin
	Love Lasts Three Years	Julia	Frédéric Beigbeder
	Silhouettes	Valerie	Lars Knorrn
2012	Radiostars	The Pizza Girl	Romain Lévy
	Porn in the Hood	Tia	Franck Gastambide
2013	Paris Or Perish	Jess	Reem Kherici
	Oldboy	Haeng-bok	Spike Lee
2015	Hacker's Game	Loise	Cyril Morin
2017	Newness	Bethany	Drake Doremus
	Ingrid Goes West	Harley Chung	Matt Spicer
	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	Mantis	James Gunn
2018	Avengers: Infinity War		Anthony & Joe Russo
	Time of Day	Herself	Thimios Bakatakis	Short film
2019	Avengers: Endgame	Mantis	Anthony & Joe Russo
	Uncut Gems	Lexis	Benny & Josh Safdie
	The Addams Family	Layla & Kayla (voice)	Greg Tiernan & Conrad Vernon
2021	Save Ralph	Rabbit (voice) / Ralph (voice, French version)	Spencer Susser	Short film
	Thunder Force	Laser	Ben Falcone
	The Suicide Squad	Dancer	James Gunn	Uncredited cameo
2022	Thor: Love and Thunder	Mantis	Taika Waititi
2023	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3		James Gunn	Post-production
	Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One	TBA	Christopher McQuarrie	Post-production
2024	Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two			Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Pigalle, la nuit	Sandra	8 episodes
2019	Black Mirror	Roxette	Episode: "Striking Vipers"
2020	Westworld	Martel	3 episodes
2022	The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special	Mantis	Television Special; Post-production

Theme park attractions

Year	Title	Role	Venue
2017	Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission Breakout!	Mantis	Disney California Adventure

Notes

References

External links

• Pom Klementieff at IMDb
• Pom Klementieff at AllMovie
• Pettit, Stephanie (5 May 2017). "Meet Pom Klementieff, the Actress Behind the Buzzed-About New Character Mantis in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2". People. Retrieved 3 October 2017.

На других языках

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[de] Pom Klementieff

Pom Klementieff (* 3. Mai 1986 in Québec, Kanada) ist eine französische Schauspielerin.

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- [en] Pom Klementieff

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[es] Pom Klementieff

Pom Alexandra Klementieff (Quebec, 3 de mayo de 1986)[1] es una actriz y modelo francesa conocida principalmente por interpretar a Mantis en el Universo Cinematográfico de Marvel, actuando en las películas Guardianes de la Galaxia Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) y Avengers: Endgame (2019).

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[ru] Клементьефф, Пом

Пом Клементье́фф (англ. Pom Klementieff; род. 3 мая 1986, Квебек, Канада) — французская актриса. Она обучалась в Парижской драматической школе Cours Florent и появилась в таких фильмах, как «Волк» (2009), «Бессонная ночь» (2011), «Игра хакера» (2015). Наиболее известна как исполнительница роли Мантис в фильме кинематографической вселенной Marvel «Стражи Галактики. Часть 2» (2017).

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