Diane Kruger

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Diane Kruger at the Berlinale 2019

Diane Kruger , actually Diane Heidkrüger (born July 15, 1976 in Algermissen , Lower Saxony ) is a German-American actress . She appears mostly in English and French language films. She became known as Helena in Troy (2004), Dr. Abigail Chase in The Legacy of the Knights Templar (2004) and The Legacy of the Secret Book (2007) and as Bridget von Hammersmark in Inglourious Basterds (2009).

Private life

Diane Kruger was born on July 15, 1976 in Algermissen . She grew up as the eldest child of a computer specialist and a bank clerk in Algermissen and attended the Josephinum grammar school in Hildesheim up to grade 10. On the side she took lessons at the Hildesheim Ballet School Freese-Baus and passed several children's ballet exams.

In order to be able to market herself better, she shortened her last name from Heidkrüger with her role in the movie Bad, Bad Things first to Krüger and then to Kruger .

Diane Kruger is fluent in English and French and has dubbed her roles in many films herself. She became a US citizen in 2013 .

On September 1, 2001, Kruger married fellow French actor Guillaume Canet . After five years, the couple divorced. From 2006 to the summer of 2016 Kruger was in a relationship with fellow Canadian actor Joshua Jackson . Her new life partner is the American actor Norman Reedus , with whom she has had a daughter since 2018.

Career

Kruger with Quentin Tarantino at the 2010 Academy Awards

On June 26, 1992, Diane Kruger was 15 years old in the world finals of the model competition Look of the year of the model agency Elite . She went to Paris and worked as a model under her real name. After a few years she took acting lessons there and eventually got smaller film roles.

In the Hollywood film Troy by Wolfgang Petersen in 2004, Kruger played the role of Helena , which marked her international breakthrough in the film business. As the actress of the most beautiful woman of antiquity, she prevailed against 3000 applicants. In the same year she played the role of Abigail Chase in the adventure film The Legacy of the Knights Templar opposite Nicolas Cage . In 2007 she repeated the role in the sequel The Legacy of the Secret Book .

At the 60th Cannes Film Festival, she hosted the opening ceremony (“maîtresse de cérémonie”) as the first German to host the opening ceremony on May 16 and the award gala on May 27, 2007. In 2008 she was appointed to the jury of the 58th Berlinale .

The film Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino , in which Kruger and other German actors played roles, was shown with great success at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009 and grossed over 300 million dollars worldwide. In April 2010, Kruger had a brief guest appearance on the US television series Fringe (episode 17 of the second season), in which her long-time friend Joshua Jackson played a leading role. Kruger played in 2010 in the music video Somebody to Love Me by Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. the British singer Boy George .

In 2012 she was appointed to the competition jury of the 65th Cannes International Film Festival and in 2015 to the jury of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival . In 2017 she was seen in Fatih Akin's feature film Out of Nowhere in her first purely German-speaking role. For her performance she was awarded the Actor Award at the 70th Cannes Film Festival .

In 2018 she was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography (selection)

Kruger at the 2009 Venice Film Festival

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Documentaries

Awards

Diane Kruger at the 2014 Peabody Awards

Nominations

Web links

Commons : Diane Kruger  - Collection of Images

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diane Heidkrüger at the Hildesheim Ballet School ( Memento from March 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Diane Kruger Talks American Citizenship on Chelsea Lately, "I Did Get the Flag Wrong . " In: E online . August 16, 2013. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  3. ↑ Get up, man . At cosmopolitan.de , accessed on December 11, 2011
  4. ↑ Diane Kruger moves to Joshua Jackson. At: bz.de ; Retrieved December 11, 2011
  5. ↑ It's over. At: Spiegel Online , accessed on July 19, 2016
  6. ↑ Diane Kruger And 'Walking Dead' star Norman Reedus Expecting Baby. huffpost.com, accessed May 31, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Finally she talks about her baby , gala.de, December 11, 2018
  8. ↑ web.archive.org ( Memento of December 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Anne Meyer-Gatermann: Diane Kruger make-up junkie with a head. In: news.de. July 6, 2010; Archived from the original on February 26, 2011 ; Retrieved February 1, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Tobias Kniebe: Film Festival in Cannes: In the Tarantino Strudel. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 24, 2009, archived from the original on April 21, 2010 ; Retrieved February 1, 2011 .
  11. ↑ Information on Inglourious Basterds. BoxOfficeMojo.com, accessed February 1, 2011 .
  12. ↑ Diane Kruger plays Boy George. plus4.com, accessed February 1, 2011 .
  13. ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
  14. ↑ These are the winners of the Bavarian Film Prize. In: Sueddeutsche.de. January 19, 2018, accessed January 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Diane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kruger, Diane; Heidkrüger, Diane (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Algermissen