Kruger's breakout role as an actress came in 2004 as Helen of Sparta in Troy, the film adaptation of Homer's Iliad. That same year, she appeared in National Treasure as Dr. Abigail Chase and later ...

Instead, we find her Helen living as a restless housewife and mother in Sparta, Tennessee, circa 1993. Her emotionally detached husband may not be a king, but she does refer to him as The Big Cheese.