Kristin Kreuk

Kristin Kreuk
Kreuk at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International
Born	Kristin Laura Kreuk (1982-12-30) December 30, 1982 (age 34) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation	Actress, film producer
Years active	2001–present

Kristin Laura Kreuk (/ˈkruːk/;Dutch: [krøːk]; born December 30, 1982) is a Canadian actress, known for her roles as Lana Lang in the Superman-inspired television series Smallville and as Laurel Yeung in the Canadian teen drama Edgemont. 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).

From 2012 to 2016, Kreuk played the role of Catherine Chandler in The CW TV series Beauty & the Beast.

Kreuk was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Peter Kreuk and Deanna Che, two landscape architects. Her father is of Dutch descent, her mother is of Chinese descent, born in Indonesia, and her maternal grandmother was Chinese Jamaican. She has a younger sister, Justine Kreuk.

Kreuk trained in karate and gymnastics at the national level until high school, but quit in grade 11 due to scoliosis. Kreuk was planning to study forensic science or psychology at Simon Fraser University, but was completely taken aback when a casting director for the CBC television series Edgemont contacted her at her high school.