Diane Kruger facts for kids
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Diane Kruger
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Kruger in 2019
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Diane Heidkrüger
15 July 1976 Lower Saxony, West Germany
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1992–present |
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Guillaume Canet
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| Children | 1 |
Diane Kruger (born Diane Heidkrüger on July 15, 1976) is a famous German actress. She became well-known early in her career. She even received a special award called the Trophée Chopard at the Cannes Film Festival. This award celebrates new acting talent.
Diane Kruger is famous for many movie roles. She played Helen in the epic film Troy (2004). She was also Dr. Abigail Chase in the adventure movies National Treasure (2004) and its 2007 sequel. You might also know her as Bridget von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds (2009). She played Gina in the exciting thriller Unknown (2011). Diane also starred as Detective Sonya Cross in the TV show The Bridge (2013–2014). In 2017, she acted in her first German-language film, In the Fade. For this role, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. In 2019, she appeared in the spy-thriller The Operative with Martin Freeman.
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Early Life and Education
Diane Heidkrüger was born on July 15, 1976, in Lower Saxony, Germany. She grew up in a Catholic family. She went to a Catholic school. One of her grandmothers was from Poland.
Diane grew up in West Germany with her younger brother, Stefan. Her mother sent her to student exchange programs. This helped Diane improve her English when she was a teenager. As a child, Diane dreamed of becoming a ballerina. She even got into the Royal Ballet School in London. However, a knee injury stopped her ballet career. Later, Diane moved to Paris. She went to drama school there. She also worked as a model. She learned to speak fluent French.
Career Highlights
Modeling Career
In 1993, Diane Kruger represented Germany in a modeling contest called Elite Model Look. After that, she started her modeling career. Even though she was not as tall as some models, she worked for many famous brands. These included Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Salvatore Ferragamo, Giorgio Armani, Jil Sander, Christian Dior, Burberry, and Louis Vuitton. She also walked in fashion shows for Marc Jacobs, D&G, and Sonia Rykiel. Diane appeared on the covers of magazines like Vogue Paris, Marie Claire, and Cosmopolitan. She slowly stopped modeling to focus on acting.
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Acting Journey
Diane Kruger became very interested in acting. She took lessons at a drama school called Cours Florent. Her first film role was in 2002. It was a TV movie called The Piano Player. The same year, she also starred in Mon Idole, a film directed by her husband at the time.
In 2003, she played Julie Wood in Michel Vaillant. In 2004, she was Lisa in Wicker Park. One of her biggest roles was playing Helen in the epic movie Troy. Also in 2004, Diane starred with Nicolas Cage in National Treasure. She then appeared in films like Joyeux Noël (2005) and Copying Beethoven (2006). She played Dr. Abigail Chase again in National Treasure: Book of Secrets, which came out in December 2007.
Diane Kruger hosted the opening and closing events of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In 2008, she was a judge at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2009, she co-starred in Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds. She played a German actress who was also an Allied spy. In December 2009, she helped announce the nominations for the 67th Golden Globe Awards. She also received nominations for her role in Inglourious Basterds from the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Diane played Anna in Jaco Van Dormael's Mr. Nobody. Critics praised the film's art and Diane's acting. She also made a short appearance in an episode of the TV show Fringe in April 2010. Her former boyfriend, Joshua Jackson, starred in that show. In 2010, Diane was in Mark Ronson's music video for "Somebody to Love Me". She played Boy George in the video.
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In the 2011 film Unknown, Diane Kruger played Gina. Gina was an immigrant and a very important character alongside Liam Neeson. In 2011, it was announced that Diane would play Marie Antoinette in the French film Les Adieux à la Reine. In 2012, she was chosen to be a judge for the main competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
She starred in the movie based on Stephenie Meyer's book The Host, released in March 2013. Diane also played police officer Sonya Cross in the TV show The Bridge, which aired in 2013. In 2015, she was a judge at the 2015 Venice Film Festival. In 2016, she acted with Bryan Cranston and John Leguizamo in The Infiltrator.
In 2017, Diane made a rare appearance in a German film. It was the thriller In the Fade by Fatih Akin. She won several awards for this role. In 2019, Diane replaced Marion Cotillard in the spy movie The 355. She played an agent from the German intelligence service.
In 2019, Diane Kruger starred in the spy-thriller The Operative with Martin Freeman.
In 2022, Diane starred in the thriller Out of the Blue. She acted opposite Ray Nicholson, who is Jack Nicholson's son. In 2023, she joined the cast of David Cronenberg's The Shrouds. She will play three different characters in this film.
Personal Life
Diane Kruger speaks German, English, and French very well. She also studied Latin in school for eight years. Diane has said that she has a fear of horses. She will not take roles that require her to ride or be around horses. She has even turned down roles because of this fear. Her fear comes from being accidentally thrown off horses in the past.
In 1999, she started dating French actor and director Guillaume Canet. They got married on September 1, 2001. They acted together in Joyeux Noël (2005). They divorced in 2006. Diane said their careers kept them in different parts of the world, which made the marriage difficult.
From 2006 to 2016, she was in a relationship with actor Joshua Jackson.
In 2015, Diane met actor Norman Reedus while working on the movie Sky. They were first seen as a couple in July 2016. In November 2018, Diane gave birth to their daughter. This was her first child and his second.
Awards and Recognition
Diane Kruger has received many awards for her acting.
- In 2003, she won the Chopard Trophy at the Cannes Film Festival for being a rising female star.
- She won a Bambi Award in 2004.
- For Inglourious Basterds, she and the cast won awards for Best Cast from the Broadcast Film Critics Association and San Diego Film Critics Society in 2009. They also won a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2010.
- In 2013, she won Best Actress at the Newport Beach Film Festival for A Perfect Plan.
- She won Best Movie Actress at the Elle Style Awards in 2015.
- For her role in In the Fade, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture in 2017.
- In 2023, she received the Golden Eye Award at the Zurich Film Festival.
Honors
She was made an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on September 22, 2014. This is a special honor from France for people who have contributed to arts and literature.
See also
In Spanish: Diane Kruger para niños
