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
She looks Eurasian. Which she is.
She looks full native to me.
LMFAO where??? She looks mostly white with a touch of Asian.
Absolutely not, you have some kind of bias?
She could easily pass off as inuit which counts as native, also whats wrong with being native? Do YOU have some kind of bias?
She’s gorgeous and unique. Does she still act anymore?
I don’t know, but I miss her onscreen. She’s a stunner. Biracial beauty.
“Beauty and the Beast”…
She looks asian. First thought when I saw her. Maybe not fully Asian which she Isn’t but definitely not fully looking Caucasian.
It’s no surprise white people can’t tell when some is mixed with an ethnic race. Most POC can tell when someone is not 100% white, and Kristin definitely does not and could not pass as fully white.
I agree that she doesn’t look white.
”White people can’t tell some is mixed with an ethnic race” stfu you racist strontaap