Kristin Kreuk (born December 30, 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian actress.
She's most famous for her roles in Superhero show Smallville as Lana Lang, and as Catherine in The CW's Beauty and the Beast (2012).
Selected Filmography
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Live-Action Films
- Snow White: The Fairest of Them All (2001) as Snow White
- EuroTrip (2004) as Fiona
- Dream Princess (2006) as Princess
- Partition (2007) as Naseem Khan
- Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) as Chun-Li
- Vampire (2011) as Maria Lucas
- Irvine Welshs Ecstasy (2011) as Heather Thompson
- Space Milkshake (2012) as Tilda
Live-Action Series
- Edgemont (2001 — 2005) as Laurel Yeung
- Smallville (2001 — 2009) as Lana Lang / Louise McCallum / Margaret Isobel Thoreaux
- Earthsea (2004) as Tenar
- Chuck (2009 — 2010) as Hannah
- Ben-Hur (2010) as Tirzah
- Beauty and The Beast (2012 — 2016) as Catherine Chandler
- Burden Of Truth (2018) as Joanna Hanley
Voice Acting
- The Weekenders (2001) as Gina
- Robot Chicken (2015) as Oblina / Catherine Chandler
- Shuyan Saga (2017) as Shuyan
This actress provides examples of:
- Action Girl: In a few of her roles. Kristin also trained in both karate and gymnastics in high school.
- Actor-Shared Background:
- In Beauty and the Beast (2012) Catherine's mother was shown to be East Asian in the pilot, just like Kristen's.
- Her character in Burden Of Truth is half-Chinese just like Kreuk is in real life.
- Alliterative Name: Kristen Kreuk. Also applies to some of her characters: Lana Lang and Catherine Chandler.
- Dawson Casting: In Smallville Kristin was 19 while playing high school freshman Lana Lang.
- Fake Nationality: She's Canadian, but plays some Asian characters due to her Chinese descent. She has also played American characters.
- Mixed Ancestry: Her father is of Dutch descent, her mother is of Chinese descent born in Indonesia, and her maternal grandmother was Chinese Jamaican.
- Romance on the Set: In Earthsea with Mark Hildreth (Jasper).
- Star-Making Role: Playing Lana Lang in Smallville rose her to stardom.
- What Could Have Been: She was considered to play the role of Helen of Troy in Troy.
