Kristin Kreuk
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, African, Scottish]
Kristin Kreuk is a Canadian actress. Her roles include Lana Lang on Smallville, as well as Edgemont, Beauty & the Beast, and Burden of Truth, and the films Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li and EuroTrip.
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.
Kreuk in 2012, image via kathclick/Bigstock.com
Looks white, would have not known she was Asian.
She looks Latina.
I didn’t know she was part Asian.
She looks more like 1/4 Asian.
She looks exotic White.
I know at least 10 people who never thought of her as Asian looking.
Those who say she looks Asian are definitively biased just because they know her background.
She looks Filipina to me. Not white.
she cant be white being half China
Why not? Half black is black, right?
No she doesn’t. She looks white.
@Humanid: When I first I saw her I just thought she was straight up white. She sure can pass for a white girl.
i guessed she’s kazakh or some other central asian