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Diane Kruger is a German actress. She is a former model-turned-actress who, early in her film career, gained worldwide recognition and received the Trophée Chopard from the Cannes Film Festival.
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entertainment · German actress (born 1976) · actor · model · film actor · television actor · voice actor · children's writer · also Diane Kruger, Kruger
Born 15 July 1976 · Q57118
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Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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“I grew up very catholic and to make money I was a professional mourner. I specialised in funerals. For two years from 10 to 12 I held a candle and stood by a coffin. I think I became an actress because of my mourning experience.”
“Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.”
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“My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.”
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“Our whole guise is like giving a sign to the world to think of us in a certain way, but there's a point between what you want people to know about you and what you can't help people knowing about you. And that has to do with what I've always called the gap between intention and effect.”
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“Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot....There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.”
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“I do feel I have some slight corner on something about the quality of things. I mean it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.”
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“It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction. The best example I know is when you go to the movies and you see two people in bed, you're willing to put aside the fact that you perfectly well know that there was a director and a cameraman and assorted lighting people all in that same room and the two people in bed weren't really alone. But when you look at a photograph, you can never put that aside.”
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“They are the proof that something was there and no longer is. Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they'll still be there looking at you.”
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“I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.”
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“For me the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. And more complicated. I do have a feeling for the print but I don't have a holy feeling for it. I really think what it is, is what it's about. I mean it has to be of something. And what it's of is always more remarkable than what it is.”
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“Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.”
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“I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.”
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“s strength of character, but as the eldest sibling, she also”
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Served as president of the jury at the 18th Angoulême Francophone Film Festival (FFA)
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Kruger starred in the thriller Out of the Blue, opposite Ray Nicholson, son of Jack
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The Guardian: Farewell, My Queen: Léa Seydoux and Diane Kruger period drama is lush and unexpectedly apropos
Kruger starred in the spy-thriller The Operative with Martin Freeman
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Kruger replaced Marion Cotillard in the spy movie The 355, playing a BND agent
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The Guardian: Cannes 2017 day 10: Diane Kruger and Juliette Binoche on the red carpet – in pictures
The Guardian: In the Fade review – ninja heroine Diane Kruger marooned in feeble revenge drama
Kruger made a rare film appearance in Germany in the thriller In the Fade by Fatih Akin, for which she won several awards
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Made her German-language debut in Fatih Akin's In the Fade, for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress
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The Guardian: Diane Kruger: ‘I truly believe the best is yet to come’
Co-starred in The Infiltrator with Bryan Cranston and John Leguizamo
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Kruger met actor Norman Reedus on the set of Sky
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Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (2014).
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That Kruger had replaced Eva Green in the role of Marie Antoinette in the French-language film, Les Adieux à la Reine
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Became the face for Calvin Klein's Beauty fragrance line
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Kruger also appeared in Mark Ronson's music video for "Somebody to Love Me", where she plays Boy George
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Kruger co-starred as a German actress turned Allied spy in Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds
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Chaired by Costa Gavras; the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, chaired by Nanni Moretti; and the 2015 Venice Film Festival, chaired by Alfonso Cuaron
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Kruger starred with Nicolas Cage and Sean Bean (who co-starred with her in Troy) in the film National Treasure, going on to appear in films Joyeux Noël (2005) and Copying Beethoven (2006)
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Opposite Dennis Hopper and Christopher Lambert in The Piano Player, a TV film by Jean-Pierre Roux
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Who encouraged her to take a theatre course to assess her abilities as a potential actress, she later said
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At the age of 21, she felt bored after five years of modelling and, in conjunction with a romantic disappointment with the man she was dating, left New York
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In Hamburg and won first prize, the Look of the Year Modelling Award
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Born 1976-07-15.
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“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.”
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Our whole guise is like giving a sign to the world to think of us in a certain way, but there's a point between what you want people to know about you and what you can't help people knowing about you. And that has to do with what I've always called the gap between intention and effect.
Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot....There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
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