Kristin Laura Kreuk was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on December 30, 1982. Her father , Peter Kreuk is Dutch and her mother, Deanna Che is a Chinese- Indonesian.  Both of her parents are landscape architects.  

     Kristin has initailly planned to go to a university to study psychology or an environmental course.  Her first step to stardom came when her drama teacher encouraged her to audition for Fox Family Channel TV series, Edgemont.  She was the last member to be cast, however played the lead role of Laurel.

     Then during her first visit to L.A. in the spring of 2001, she landed the part of Lana Lang, the female lead role in the new WB series, Smallville, the teenage years of superman.  The producers of Smallville thought of her to be the most ideal for the role and chose her to be the first member of the series!