AKA Diane Heidekrueger

Born: 15-Jul-1976
Birthplace: Hildesheim, Germany

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Helen of Troy

Diane Kruger is an actress, model, and former dancer whose ballet career was cut short by an injury. So instead of dancing, she became a top supermodel in Paris, where, in her spare time, she trained at the elite private French theater school Ecole Florent.

Her first name, though it's spelled "Diane," is pronounced "Dion," like Celine Dion.

She made her movie debut in the Christopher Lambert action movie The Piano Player, and has worked in several French-language films. She married the director of her second film, Mon Idole (My Idol), Guillaume Canet.

She starred in Troy, an adaptation of Homer's epic poem The Iliad. The poem is 3,000 years old, hated by high school and college kids everywhere required to read it, but the surviving cliché about Helen of Troy is that she's supposed to be the most beautiful woman in the world. She's the face that launched a thousand ships, remember?

Troy was supposed to make Kruger a star, but that remains to be seen. She has since appeared in Wicker Park with Josh Hartnett and National Treasure with Nicolas Cage.

Brother: Stefan (younger)
Husband: Guillaume Canet (French actor, m. 1-Sep-2001, div. 2006)

    Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It" List Thousand-Ship Launcher

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    National Treasure: Book of Secrets (13-Dec-2007)
    The Hunting Party (3-Sep-2007)
    Goodbye Bafana (11-Feb-2007)
    Copying Beethoven (30-Jul-2006)
    Joyeux Noël (16-May-2005)
    National Treasure (8-Nov-2004)
    Narco (12-Oct-2004)
    Wicker Park (4-Jul-2004)
    Troy (9-May-2004)
    Michel Vaillant (8-Nov-2003)
    Not For or Against (5-Mar-2003)
    My Idol (17-Dec-2002)
    The Piano Player (6-Oct-2002)

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