Pom Klementieff

Pom Alexandra Klementieff (; born 3 May 1986) is a French actress. She is best known for playing Mantis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and Paris in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and an untitled eighth film. Early life Klementieff was born in Quebec City, Canada, to a Korean mother, Yu Ri Park, and Russian-French father Alexis Klementieff,World Guide to Foreign Services, vol. 1, World Guides Internationale Publikationen, 1986, p. 261 who was working there as a consul with the government of France. Her grandfather was Russian painter Eugene Klementieff (1901 – c.1985). Her parents chose the name "Pom" because it is similar in pronunciation to the Korean words for both "spring" and "tiger". She is a French citizen but does not have Canadian citizenship because jus soli does not apply to children of diplomats. Klementieff lived in Canada for one year before her family began traveling extensively due to her father's job. They lived in Japan and Ivory Coast before settling in France.