Kristin Kreuk's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Smallville Lana Lang Beauty & the Beast (2012) Catherine '… Burden of Truth Joanna Chang Legend of Earthsea Tenar Ben Hur (CA) Tirzah Edgemont (CA) Laurel Yeung

Main Movie Roles

BIOGRAPHY:

Kristin Laura Kreuk is a Canadian actress best known for her roles as Lana Lang in Smallville, as Catherine Chandler-Keller in Beauty & the Beast, and currently as Joanna Hanley Chang in Burden of Truth.

Kreuk first went to an open casting audition for Edgemont (2000), a teen drama series aired on CBC Television in Canada where she was cast as Laurel Yeung. Laurel was the last main character to be cast because the casting director was having a problem finding an actress. Fortunately, for them (and us), they found Kristin. In mid-2004, Kreuk took the role of Tenar for the Sci-Fi Channel two-part miniseries Earthsea. In 2009, Kreuk signed on for a multi-episode arc in season three of Chuck. She played Hannah, a computer troubleshooter who joins the Buy More Nerd Herd after being laid off from her previous job.

She has also starred in movies such as Snow White: The Fairest of Them All (2001), Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009), and Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy (2011).



TRIVIA:

• Her favourite bandsartists are: Jeff Buckley, Miles Davis, Tribe called quest, Coldplay and Radiohead.
• Named #28 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
• (June 2002) Voted in at #10 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Girls of 2002 poll, U.K. edition.
• Had never worked professionally as an actress before _"Edgemont" (2000)_ (qv) (but had done stage work).
• Does not smoke.
• Her younger sister's name is Justine. Her father, Peter Kreuk, is of Dutch ancestry and her mother, Deanna Che, is of Chinese ancestry but born in Indonesia; both are landscape architects.
• Her surname "kreuk" is Dutch for a "wrinkle" or "fold" in a material (textiles in particular).
• Ranked #10 on Wizard magazine's "Sexiest Women of TV" list (March 2008).