Kristin Kreuk

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Kristin Kreuk at Comic-Con 2013

Kristin Laura Kreuk (born December 30, 1982 in Vancouver ) is a Canadian actress and model , best known for her roles in the Canadian television series Edgemont and the American series Smallville .

Life

Childhood and youth

Kreuk's parents are landscape architects. Her father Peter Kreuk is of Dutch descent, the mother Deanna Che is from Indonesia , but originally from China . Her maternal grandmother is also a Jamaican Chinese. Kreuk has a younger sister named Justine who was born in 1986.

Kreuk already had plans for her future and wanted to study either ( forensic ) psychology , environmental engineering, or forensic medicine at Simon Fraser University when a casting officer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) called her high school in 2000 and asked for an exotic looking girl to play Laurel Yeung on the youth soap opera Edgemont . Kreuk, who - with the exception of school theater - had no acting experience, was suggested for the role by her theater teacher. To her own surprise, she was chosen.

Film and television career

After the first season of Edgemont was shot and she already had her own agent, Kreuk got the lead role as Snow White in the television movie Snow White: The Fairest of Them All . The film, in which Miranda Richardson also starred, was shot in Vancouver and first aired on ABC on March 17, 2002 .

After Snow White , Kreuks agent sent an application video to screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar , who were looking for people for their new series Smallville , which they produced for the US television station The WB . The series was to be shot in Vancouver and was about the youth of Clark Kent , aka Superman . Gough and Millar invited Kreuk to the WB Studios in Burbank ( California ), where she for the role of Lana Lang - Clark Kent's great love before Lois Lane should audition -. Initially, Kreuk didn't want to play the role because Lana was a gorgeous, popular cheerleader , so she thought she had to play a "superficial idiot" in the role. But after reading the cemetery scene in the script, she was thrilled, and when she was offered the role, she immediately accepted. She was the first to get her role on the series, ahead of her fellow actors Tom Welling , Michael Rosenbaum and Allison Mack . Kreuk appeared from 2001 to 2008 - seasons 1 to 7 - in the role of Lana Lang and was part of the main cast. After the end of the seventh season, she made a few guest appearances.

In 2003 she got her first film role, a brief appearance in the film Eurotrip , in which Scott Mechlowicz and Michelle Trachtenberg starred. The film was shot in Prague and premiered on February 20, 2004. In the summer of 2004, Kreuk took part in the casting of the SciFi channel for the series Legend of Earthsea with Shawn Ashmore and Danny Glover . The series is based on the novels by Ursula K. Le Guin . Kreuk's role, Tenar , is a student of the high priestess Thar of the Tombs of Atuan (played by Isabella Rossellini ) and also the adored of Ashmore's character. The series was shot in Vancouver under the direction of Robert Lieberman and co-produced by Lawrence Bender . It was first broadcast on December 13, 2004.

In April 2005, Kreuk was in front of the camera for the filming of Partition , an epic film about the relationship between the British - Indian soldier Gian Singh (played by Jimi Mistry ) and the white 17 year old Naseem (played by Kreuk). Africa , India and England were used as locations . In 2009, Kreuk took on the lead role in the film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li , which is based on the computer game series of the same name . The film was released in US theaters in February 2009.

From 2012 to 2016 Kreuk played the role of Catherine Chandler in the US series Beauty & the Beast , for which she won a People's Choice Award for best female lead actress in a sci-fi series in 2013.

other activities

The management of the cosmetics manufacturer Johnson & Johnson made Kreuk the cover girl for a worldwide advertising campaign in 2002 .

In November 2017, Kreuk and her Smallville co-actress Allison Mack were associated with NXIVM , a sect disguised as a self-help organization. After the organization's founder, Keith Raniere , was arrested in 2018, Kreuk said on Twitter that she had joined NXIVM on the assumption that it was a self-help organization. You left the group in 2013. The Girls by Design project , which she pursued with her friend Kendra Voth, is also associated with NXIVM.

Private life

Kreuk is in a relationship with the actor Mark Hildreth . Both met years ago because they are looked after by the same manager . During the recording of the television series Earthsea - The Saga of Erdsee , in which both star, they got closer and ultimately became a couple.

Furthermore, Kreuk is a Pescetarian , as she is in the program Live! with Kelly and Michael in October 2012.

Filmography

Kristin Kreuk at Comic-Con (2012)

Web links

Commons : Kristin Kreuk  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Parlato: Deep Dive into Kristin Kreuk's Girls By Design [Part 1]. March 18, 2020, accessed July 16, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ Kristin Kreuk and Mark Hildreth. In: Who's Dated Who? Retrieved May 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Kelly & Michael: Kristen Kreuk New Series "Beauty and the Beast". In: Recapo. October 10, 2012, accessed May 23, 2016 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Kreuk, Kristin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreuk, Kristin Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress and model
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver