Actress Kristin Kreuk

Kristin Kreuk is a Canadian actress who is best known for roles in offbeat television shows and movies.

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia to a white father and an Asian mother, Ms. Kreuk has parlayed her exotic looks into choice acting roles.  From 2001 to 2009, she starred in "Smallville," a series about Superman's formative years as the teenage Clark Kent in a rural town named for its founder, Josiah Small.  (Just kidding, it's called Smallville because it is indeed a small ville. :-D)  Ms. Kreuk played Lana Lang, Cark Kent's first love interest.

Her roles in the movies include a woman who has an affair with a musician in the 2004 comedy movie EuroTrip, an Indian teenager affected by the partition of India and Pakistan and who falls in love with a former officer in the British Indian Army in 2007's Partition, and the title character in the martial arts film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li from 2009.

Ms. Kreuk has committed herself to her television career back in her native Canada, starring in the CBC drama "Burden of Truth," in which she plays a lawyer who returns to her small town to represent a pharmaceutical company against sick girls but realizes she's on the wrong side.

With gutsy roles like that, it's certain that Kristin Kreuk will continue to surprise people.