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" Published in the August 2013 issue Technically, she&amp;#039;s German. Although Diane Kruger&amp;#039;s voice would have you think otherwise. A slight German accent will slip in during conversation, but she can sound almost British. French, too. And there are times you&amp;#039;d think she was born and raised here in the States. South Dakota, maybe. Really, you can hardly call her German. She started splitting her time between a small village in Lower Saxony and London to study ballet at the Royal Academy when she was about six. With ballet ended because of an injury, she moved to Paris at fifteen and started modeling there and then in New York. &amp;quot;Then modeling became boring, so I went to drama school in Paris. In French. Think of learning English through Shakespeare.&amp;quot; For about twenty years \u2014 she&amp;#039;s thirty-six now \u2014 Kruger has shuttled between shoots and film sets, never settling anywhere for long. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve got commitmentphobia.&amp;quot; She has a home base in Los Angeles with her longtime partner, former Dawson&amp;#039;s Creek star Joshua Jackson, and goes to Paris to do at least one French movie a year. Her biggest role so far was the part of a brusque German actress, Bridget von Hammersmark, the double agent aiding Brad Pitt&amp;#039;s character in Inglourious Basterds. But there was also Troy, in which she played Helen, a role the director, Wolfgang Petersen, purportedly went through three thousand faces to cast. And for the two National Treasure movies, she managed to ground Nicolas Cage&amp;#039;s insanity while schooling us in American history. In her latest role, on FX&amp;#039;s The Bridge, she plays a detective on the U. S. side of a murder investigation split between El Paso, Texas, and Ju\u00E1rez, Mexico. The detective has Asperger&amp;#039;s, a syndrome that can present itself as, well, uh \u2014 how do you say? \u2014 a little German. &amp;quot;I wouldn&amp;#039;t go that far,&amp;quot; Kruger says. &amp;quot;But all of my life, people have told me I&amp;#039;m very direct and can come across as blunt. There are some things where I&amp;#039;m like, This character \u2014 of course they wanted to cast me.&amp;quot; As if the talent and beauty and voice had nothing to do with it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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