Book Diane Kruger

Diane Kruger is a German actress, born in Algermissen in 1976, who went from ballet and modeling to an international film career spanning Hollywood blockbusters and European art cinema. Trained in ballet in Hanover and at London's Royal Ballet School, she took first prize in the Elite Model Look national contest in 1992 at age 15 and modeled in Paris and New York before turning to acting in the late 1990s. Early on she was honored with the Trophée Chopard at the Cannes Film Festival. She became known worldwide as Helen in Troy (2004) and as Dr. Abigail Chase in National Treasure (2004) and National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007), then played actress-spy Bridget von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009). Her other films include Joyeux Noël (2005), Copying Beethoven (2006), Goodbye Bafana (2007), Unknown (2011), Farewell, My Queen (2012) and Marlowe (2022). On television she starred as Detective Sonya Cross in FX's The Bridge. Her first German-language role, in Fatih Akin's In the Fade (2017), won her the Best Actress award at Cannes, and she was later named an Officer of Arts and Letters. Kruger brings sophistication, multilingual range and cosmopolitan star quality.