Pom Klementieff parents are Alexis Klementieff and Yu Ri Park. Her father was in a government job and her mother was a housemaker.
The actress Pom is a French-American actress and model who has worked in the movie industry in both French and Hollywood movies.
The actress started her career in 2007 with a French movie, After Him. However, she did not receive much fame after the movie.
Then when she came to Hollywood, she played in her first Hollywood movie called Old Boy in 2013.
Even then, many people still did not recognize her original name. But now, if somebody says she is the actress who plays the role of Mantis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then there would rarely be any people that don’t recognize her.
The actress has worked in Marvel movies such as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: End Game, Thor: Love and Thunder, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
Her character Manti’s phenomenal success has slingshot her fame and success sky-high, which she had never seen before.
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Pom Klementieff Father Was A French Diplomat
Pom Klementiff mother Yu Ri Park was Korean while her father Alexis Klementiff was half-Russian and half-French. Pom grew up between different cultures.
The actress spent only brief childhood with her parents, later moving to live with her parental uncle’s family.
Father Alexis Klementiff
Pom Klementiff’s father is Alexis Klementiff. He used to work as a consul with the government of France.
Her father always was obsessed with Asian beauty. His father is also the Russian painter Eugene Klementieff
One time while he was walking in the streets of Seoul, Alexis met the love of his life and mother to his children, Yu Ri Park. Soon, the pair got married and began to live happily.
As the consul for the government, he had to be in constant movement in different countries. During his days with the government, he worked in Canada, Japan, and Ivory Coast.
But the actress doesn’t have many memories of her father because she was still a child when he was a cancer victim.
He passed away, battling cancer inside, taking him far away from his family.
After that devasting incident to her family, her family’s structure was disfigured. Not able to cope with her father’s passing, the actress’s mother suffered from schizophrenia.
This caused her not to be able to take care of herself and her children.
So, Pom and her brother Namou moved to her paternal uncle’s home in France to live with them.
Pom Klementieff Brother Namou Moved To France With Her
Pom Klementieff brother Namou was her only sibling. The actress was three years younger than him.
As there was not much age difference among the siblings, the actress was close to her brother from a young age.
After their father passed away, their mother couldn’t take care of them. They used to take care of each other.
As she was small then, she could only look towards her brother for support.
After they went to France to stay at her paternal uncle’s house, he was together with her. Her paternal uncle’s family and her brother raised her to be who she is today.
Pom Has Had A Tragic Life
The model was only five years old when she had to move to her paternal uncle in France. Though the house was new to them, they felt very much at home due to all the love his uncle’s family showed them.
The actress herself was very fond of her uncles and aunts. Her uncle played the role of the father in her life.
Even though he could not fill the void of her father’s absence, her uncle gave her as much love as a father would give to his daughter and became a father figure.
But the tragedy was a thing that never left her family. On the day of her eighteenth birthday celebration, her uncle passed away, leaving her fragile heart even more broken.
Even with all the tragedy, life still moves on. To appease her aunt, the actress went to law school but didn’t continue her studies after two months because she realized that law school was not for her.
After that, she worked as a waitress and a saleswoman for some time in France.
Finding her passion in acting, she attended Cours Florent drama school when she was 19.
She later won a theater competition that awarded her free class for two years with the school’s top teachers. She was overjoyed and happy about the opportunity.
The tragedy of the family again hit her when on her 25th birthday, her brother Namou passed away.
The Actress Lived Her Life Between Countries
Pom Klementieff mother was the one who named her Pom. Pom was a Korean word that meant spring and tiger.
The other reason the actress was named Pom is that in French, ‘Pomme’ meant apple. The word also sounded Pom and the word represented the actress as an apple, the fruit of her parent’s union.
She was named Pom Alexandra Klementieff as her birth name.
The actress was born in Quebec, Canada on May 3, 1986. Her father was in Canada for this government consul duty. Though she was born in Canada, she was not a citizen of Canada because citizenship doesn’t apply to the children of diplomats.
After staying in Canada for a year, her family moved to Japan where the family stayed there for three years. When she was four years old, her father was again sent to Ivory Coast, where she stayed for a year.
While traveling, she had gone to classes in Japan. But after her father passed away she and her brother moved to France to live with her uncle.
During her stay in France, she completed high school.
Many people may not know this but the actress is also the granddaughter of Eugene Klementieff, who is a famous painter from Russia.
