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Kreuk in 2004, image by Prphotos
Birth Name: Kristin Laura Kreuk
Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Date of Birth: December 30, 1982
Ethnicity: * father – Dutch * maternal grandfather – Chinese-Indonesian * maternal grandmother – Jamaican [Chinese, smaller amounts of African and Scottish]
Kristin Kreuk is a Canadian actress. Her roles include the series Edgemont , Smallville , as Lana Lang; Earthsea , Ben Hur , Chuck , Beauty & the Beast , Burden of Truth , Reacher , and Murder in a Small Town ; the films EuroTrip , Partition (2007), Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li , Vampire (2011), Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy , and Space Milkshake ; the made-for-tv movie Snow White: The Fairest of Them All ; and the video game Watch Dogs: Legion .
Her father, Peter Kreuk, is from St. Catharines, Ontario, and is of Dutch ancestry. Her mother, Deanna Che, was born in Indonesia, to a Chinese-Indonesian father and a Jamaican mother of Chinese, Scottish, and African descent. A picture of Kristin’s maternal grandmother’s family can be seen here .
Kristin has said :
My grandmother was born in Jamaica of mixed descent. Her grandfather had come from China to work the Panama Canal. Her grandmother a woman of mixed heritage, was the daughter of a Scottish estate owner and an African slave. At least this is what I have been able to grasp from the data that is available… This… is not intended as a dissertation on my family history or the history of Jamaica itself, but more as a statement about how this quest has lead me to an unexpectedly immense feeling of connectedness.
My grandmother was born in Jamaica of mixed descent. Her grandfather had come from China to work the Panama Canal. Her grandmother a woman of mixed heritage, was the daughter of a Scottish estate owner and an African slave. At least this is what I have been able to grasp from the data that is available… This… is not intended as a dissertation on my family history or the history of Jamaica itself, but more as a statement about how this quest has lead me to an unexpectedly immense feeling of connectedness.
Kreuk in 2012, image via kathclick /Bigstock.com