 In 2001 , Kristin Kreuk was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actress , as well as Female Cinescape Genre Face of the Future . The following year , alongside co @-@ star Tom Welling , Kreuk was nominated for a Best Actress Saturn Award again . She would receive two more nominations in that category , one in 2004 and one in 2006 , before she departed from the show . In the 2003 Teen Choice Awards , Kristin Kreuk was nominated for Choice TV Actress : Drama / Action Adventure . She was nominated again in 2004 , 2006 , 2008 for the revised category Choice TV Actress : Action Adventure , and finally in 2009 . Kreuk was also co @-@ nominated with Welling at the 2006 Teen Choice Awards for Most Beautiful Couple ( TV - Choice Chemistry ) . 
