20 Facts About Pom Klementieff

Pom Alexandra Klementieff was born on May 3,1986 in Quebec City, Quebec, to Korean mother Yu Ri Park and Russian-French father Alexis Klementieff.

Pom Klementieff moved to Kyoto, Japan and then the Ivory Coast before returning to France, settling an hour away from Paris.

Pom Klementieff's father died of cancer when she was five, and her mother had schizophrenia and was unable to care for her children, so Pom Klementieff was raised by her paternal uncle and aunt.

Pom Klementieff's uncle died on her 18th birthday, and her older brother Namou died by suicide seven years later, on her 25th birthday.

Pom Klementieff moved to Paris to study law to appease her aunt, after her uncle's death, but did not find it appealing.

Pom Klementieff worked as a waitress and saleswoman in France.

Pom Klementieff started acting at age 19 at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris.

In one scene, Pom Klementieff was supposed to push someone down a set of stairs but accidentally fell down the stairs herself, and director Gael Morel kept that shot in the final film.

Pom Klementieff's first leading role was in Loup, a French film about a tribe of reindeer herders in the Siberian mountains.

Pom Klementieff befriended nomads who lived there, worked with real wolves, rode reindeer, and swam with a horse in a lake.

Pom Klementieff made her Hollywood debut in Spike Lee's Oldboy, a remake of the South Korean film of the same name.

Pom Klementieff portrayed Haeng-bok, the bodyguard of the antagonist played by Sharlto Copley.

Pom Klementieff contributed some of her own clothes to the character's wardrobe, and trained three hours a day for two months for an on-screen fight with star Josh Brolin.

Pom Klementieff herself came up with the name Haeng-bok, Korean for "happiness", after Lee asked her to research possible names for the character.

Pom Klementieff moved to Los Angeles after Oldboy was filmed and began pursuing more Hollywood auditions.

Pom Klementieff continued taekwondo after the film, and has a purple belt as of the summer of 2014.

Pom Klementieff's next acting role was the film Hacker's Game, in which she plays a hacker she compared to Lisbeth Salander from the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Pom 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.

Pom Klementieff received worldwide recognition when she joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Mantis, appearing in the films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Pom Klementieff played Marianna in the 2024 thriller The Killer's Game.