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Diane Kruger

Diane Kruger
Diane Kruger was born Diane Heidkrueger in Algermissen, near Hildesheim, Germany, on July 15, 1976, and raised there with her younger brother, Stefan. As a child, Diane wanted to become a ballerina, so she traveled to London where she studied with the Royal Ballet. Unfortunately, an injury ruined her career before it could really begin, and Diane turned to modeling instead.



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Diane Kruger - news / articles


  • Kruger: 'Jackson has made me wiser' - 26 February 2011
    -Diane Kruger has credited her boyfriend Joshua Jackson with making her more worldly wise by encouraging her to question everything she reads.- -The German actress began dating the Dawson's Creek star in 2006 and admits her intellectual beau has instilled in her a gro


  • Tarantino's Basterd deal to choke Kruger - 21 January 2010
    -Diane Kruger put her life in the hands of director Quentin Tarantino on the set of war movie Inglourious Basterds - after agreeing to let the filmmaker choke her during a fight scene.- -Kruger plays German spy Bridget von Hammersmark in the film about a group of Jewi


  • Tarantino cast doubts over Kruger's German - 18 August 2009
    -Diane Kruger's convincing American accent nearly cost her a role in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds - because the director didn't believe the actress was "German enough".- -Kruger plays German spy Bridget von Hammersmark in the upcoming drama but ad

Diane Kruger - what members say


  • Troy
  • Troy review by A customer from Glasgow
    Rated - 3.0 stars Hmmmmmm. Not convinced 30 January 2005
    ...rformance because we all know he can do better. Orlando Bloom was embaressing, Diane Kruger as lovely as she is certainly ain't worth sending 1000 ships after. Thankfully...   Read customer review
  • National Treasure
  • National Treasure review by from St Albans
    Rated - 2.0 stars National Turkey 1 January 2006
    ...the D of I and getting to the treasure first. Along the way Nick Cage picks up Diane Kruger (who is totally implausible as the Director of the National Archive – where the...   Read customer review
  • Joyeux Noel
  • Joyeux Noel review by from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Expected more 12 January 2006
    ...m also features some of the worse lip-synching you will ever see on screen from Diane Kruger and Benno Fuhrmann. Despite its flaws, Joyeux Noel is touching, particularly...   Read customer review

Diane Kruger - filmography


  • Unknown on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Diane Kruger,  January Jones
    Director: Jaume Collet-Serra,  Simon Brand
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 40,877 members
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  • Special Forces on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Diane Kruger,  Benoit Magimel,  Denis Menochet
    Director: Stephane Rybojad
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Amidst the savage battlegrounds, Afghanistan war correspondent Elsa Casanova (Diane Kruger, Unknown) is willing to risk everything to get her story, even her life. Taken hostage by the feared Taliban she faces imminent execution. As the news reaches government officials an elite commando force is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 391 members
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  • Special Forces - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Diane Kruger,  Benoit Magimel,  Denis Menochet
    Director: Stephane Rybojad
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Reporter Elsa Casamova has been taken hostage by the Taliban and is faced with imminent execution. A special forces unit is sent in to rescue her and they are faced with some of the worst dangers of their lives in order to ensure that they bring her back alive.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 311 members
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  • Inhale - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Diane Kruger,  Dermot Mulroney,  Rosanna Arquette
    Director: Baltasar Kormakur
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In a desperate attempt to save their daughter Chole from a rare disease, Paul (Dermot Mulroney) and Diane (Diane Kruger) go to dangerous lengths to find her a lung donor. Paul and Diane find themselves involved in the middle of a criminal underworld medical ring in Mexico. As Paul races against the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3 members
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  • Lily Sometimes (2010)
    Starring: Diane Kruger,  Ludivine Sagnier,  Denis Menochet
    Director: Fabienne Berthaud
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Lily is like no one else. She lives in a whimsical universe in harmony with nature at her mother’s country home. Her older sister, Clara, married to an up-and-coming attorney, lives and works in Paris. When their mother dies, Clara has to upset her life and job to look after Lily. Under her ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 4 members
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  • Inhale (2010)
    Starring: Diane Kruger,  Dermot Mulroney,  Rosanna Arquette
    Director: Baltasar Kormakur,  Baltasar Kormákur
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In a desperate attempt to save their daughter Chole from a rare disease, Paul (Dermot Mulroney) and Diane (Diane Kruger) go to dangerous lengths to find her a lung donor. Paul and Diane find themselves involved in the middle of a criminal underworld medical ring in Mexico. As Paul races against the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 15 members
    Not available for rental
  • Inglourious Basterds - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Diane Kruger,  Melanie Laurent
    Director: Quentin Tarantino
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shoshanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 745 members
    Not available for rental
  • Mr. Nobody - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Jared Leto,  Diane Kruger,  Rhys Ifans
    Director: Jaco Van Dormael
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the year 2092, a time when Mars is a vacation spot, Nemo Nobody is a 117-year-old man who is the last mortal among humans who have become immortal due to scientific advances involving the perpetual rejuvenation of telomeres. When Nemo is on his deathbed, he reviews the three possible existences ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 601 members
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  • Inglourious Basterds (2009)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Diane Kruger,  Melanie Laurent
    Director: Quentin Tarantino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shoshanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 4,993 members
    Not available for rental
  • Mr. Nobody on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Jared Leto,  Diane Kruger,  Rhys Ifans
    Director: Jaco Van Dormael
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the year 2092, a time when Mars is a vacation spot, Nemo Nobody is a 117-year-old man who is the last mortal among humans who have become immortal due to scientific advances involving the perpetual rejuvenation of telomeres. When Nemo is on his deathbed, he reviews the three possible existences ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,734 member
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  • Farewell (2009)
    Starring: Emir Kusturica,  Guillaume Canet,  Alexandra Maria Lara
    Director: Christian Carion
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on a true story, Farewell (aka L'Affaire Farewell) documents one of the most astounding tales of espionage to come out of the Cold War. Directed by Academy Award nominated Christian Carion (Merry Christmas), Farewell features a stellar cast including award-winning actor/director Emir ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 32 members
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  • Anything for Her on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Vincent Lindon,  Diane Kruger,  Lancelot Roch
    Director: Fred Cavayé
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Lisa and Julien are a happily married couple, still passionately in love, who lead a normal life together with their young son Oscar. But their lives are turned upside down when one morning, completely out of the blue, the police come to arrest Lisa for a brutal murder. She is found guilty and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 5,825 members
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  • Copying Beethoven on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Diane Kruger,  Ralph Riach,  Matyelok Gibbs
    Director: Agnieszka Holland
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Young Anna Holz, (Kruger) a student at the Vienna Music Conservatory is summoned to the offices of Herr Schlemmer, Beethoven's publisher. His Ninth Symphony is about to be premiered and Schlemmer, who is dying of cancer, needs a copyist to complete the score. Anna eagerly accepts, despite his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 903 members
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  • Frankie on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Diane Kruger,  Jeannick Gravelines,  Brigitte Catillon
    Director: Fabienne Berthaud
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Fabienne Berthaud's psychodrama Frankie probes the events that led to emotional crisis, mental breakdown, and psychiatric hospitization for a fashion model. Nearing the age of 30, the titular ex cover girl (Diane Kruger) is neither particularly young nor thin. She instead resides in an asylum in ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 71 members
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  • Joyeux Noel on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Diane Kruger,  Benno Furmann,  Guillaume Canet
    Director: Christian Carion
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When war breaks out in the lull of summer 1914, it surprises and pulls millions of men in its wake. And Christmas arrives, with its snow and multitude of family and army bundles. But the surprise won't come from the inside the generous parcels which lie in the French, Scottish and German trenches. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4,240 members
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  • Troy on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Orlando Bloom,  Sean Bean,  Brian Cox
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    With soaring photography that circles from above then swoops in for the action, TROY is Wolfgang Petersen's majestic presentation of the classic Greek legend. It tells the story of an epic battle over Helen (Diane Kruger), the queen of Sparta, who is kidnapped by her lover Paris (Orlando Bloom), ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 80,665 members
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  • Wicker Park on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Josh Hartnett,  Matthew Lillard,  Diane Kruger
    Director: Paul McGuigan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    An intense psychological thriller about a man caught in an obsessive search for a woman he fell in love with a woman who then vanished without a trace. Two years after her disappearance, he catches a fleeting glimpse of her in a local bar and begins a twisting search to find her and discover what ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 12,561 members
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  • National Treasure on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Diane Kruger,  Sean Bean
    Director: Jon Turteltaub
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    A treasure hunter is in hot pursuit of a mythical treasure that has been passed down for centuries, while his employer- turned enemy, is onto the same path that he's on.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 96,114 members
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  • Troy - HD
    Starring: Orlando Bloom,  Sean Bean,  Brian Cox
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In 1193B.C. the dandy Trojan prince Paris (Bloom) irresponsibly spirits away the unhappy wife of Menelaus (Gleeson), the Spartan king. Demanding the return of Helen, the Greeks launch a thousand ships and lay siege to Troy. Under the command of Agamemnon (Cox), revered warrior Achilles (Pitt) leads ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,006 member
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Diane Kruger facts

5 most recent films

Unknown - 3.5 stars
Unknown - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Special Forces - 3.5 stars
Special Forces - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Inhale - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Inglourious Basterds - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Inglourious Basterds - 4.0 stars
Goodbye Bafana - 3.5 stars
Unknown - 3.5 stars
Unknown - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Lily Sometimes - 2.0 stars
Inhale - 3.0 stars
Farewell - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Inhale - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Farewell - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Sean Bean - 10 times - show films
Brad Pitt - 9 times - show films
Brendan Gleeson - 7 times - show films
Peter O'Toole - 7 times - show films
Brian Cox - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Wolfgang Petersen - 7 times - show films
Jon Turteltaub - 5 times - show films
Jaume Collet-Serra - 4 times - show films
Simon Brand - 4 times - show films
Stephane Rybojad - 3 times - show films