[6][7] Kreuk trained in karate[3][8] and gymnastics at the national level until high school but quit in grade 11 due to scoliosis.

[8] Kreuk was planning to study forensic science or psychology at Simon Fraser University and was surprised when a casting director for the CBC television series Edgemont contacted her at her high school.

After Snow White, Kreuk's agent sent an audition tape to screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who at the time were putting together the cast of a show they had created for the WB Network (now The CW) entitled Smallville.

Gough and Millar called Kreuk to WB's studios in Burbank, California to audition for the role of Clark Kent's first love, Lana Lang, and she was later cast in the part.

In 2010, she portrayed Judah Ben-Hur's sister Tirzah in the TV movie Ben Hur, which aired in Canada and later on ABC in the United States.

Kreuk was involved with two pilots that did not get picked up: a 2010 CBS sitcom entitled Hitched (which was co-created by Josh Schwartz, who was also the creator of Chuck)[10] and a 2011 NBC drama series called 17th Precinct, which was made by Ronald D.

[11] In February 2012, Kreuk was announced as the lead female character in The CW's reboot of Beauty & the Beast,[12] which was picked up on May 11, 2012, and started airing in Fall 2012.

In 2018, Kreuk played the lead role in Burden of Truth, a CBC Television production in which she portrays a "big-city lawyer who takes on a case for a group of sick girls in her hometown".

In the summer of 2006, Kreuk starred in the short film, Dream Princess by comic book writer/artist Kaare Andrews.

[26][27] Parvati's first production was a short film directed by Rick Rosenthal called Blink, of which Kreuk is listed as an executive producer.

[34][35] Kreuk moved back to Vancouver in September 2022,[36] after living in Toronto for a few years to study her undergraduate degree and pursue producing opportunities.

[38][39][40] In November 2017, Kreuk and her Smallville co-star Allison Mack were linked to a multi-level marketing organization and cult known as NXIVM, which was founded by Keith Raniere.