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
Her nose/eyes look a little Asiatic influence, but most people wouldn’t notice that in real life…
I Can See The Asian Features In Her Right Away. Whoever Says She Looks White Is An Idiot. She Is A Very Beautiful Woman. I’ve Always Been A Little Jealous Of People Who Are Half Asian/Half White. They Are Some Of The Most Gorgeous People.
Can you write like a non-“idiot”?
Also, i didn’t know she was half chinese, i mean, how can anyone tell? by that logic, Taylor Swift should be half asian too. Maybe Kristin is mixed but she definitely looks like a regular white girl.
Hardly see any Mongoloid influence in her tbh.
I wouldn’t expect to under any circumstances anyway. After all, the non-discredited term is East Asian.
She looks White.
surprised she is half Chinese, usually when a person has an eighth Chinese in them it really shows, my friend is only an eighth Japanese but she looks fully japanese
I doubt that your friend looks fully Japanese. The Asian gene is not that strong. It usually fades away by the time someone is 1/8 Asian. If she looks “fully Japanese” she must be more than 1/8 Asian.
the white phenotype is supposedly dominant, but i’m not sure how true that is, i’d say it comes down to chance in the end and most of the time after 3 or 4 generations regardless of the race, whatever admixture was there tends to show less significance if it all
No the white phenotype would be more recessive genetically but someone who is only an eighth Chinese would be difficult to pick. If someone is half and half it is easy to see the mixture but yes after 3 or 4 generations it can get a bit difficult. Kristin looks like a mix. You can definitely see the Chinese in her.
well i always thought the white facial structure had dominance which is why australia had the stolen generation period with the intention of breeding out the indigenous blood into white society because our genes were dominant. It never fully made sense to me however since light hair and eyes are recessive and when i see mixed people most of the time the non-white side tends to show more, the only thing i know is a dominant feature of the white race is an aquiline nose