At 17, Kelly was discovered by Elite Models while visiting her family in Los Angeles. She worked with multiple teen magazines, Macy’s, Sebastian Hair and others. After working as a model, she began pursuing her real passion of acting. Kelly landed a lead role in the feature film Vampire Clan. Kruger appeared on the
CBS daytime soap opera,
The Young and the Restless as
Mackenzie Browning, from February 2002 to July 2003. Kruger also appeared in several movies, as well as one episode each of the TV series
Knight Rider and
Blue Mountain State. Kruger has appeared on hit shows such as
Entourage,
Bones,
Criminal Minds,
Castle, and
Rizzoli & Isles. In 2014, it was announced that Kruger had joined the cast of
The Bold and the Beautiful, as a
day player. Kruger will make her debut as Eva, in an episode as part of the show's location shoot in
Paris, in August 2014. Kelly Kruger continues to recur as Eva. In 2017, Kruger played villainess Joelle in the Lifetime film,
Girls Night Out. On March 9, 2018, it was announced by the
Soap Opera Digest that Kruger would be returning to
The Young and the Restless as Mackenzie. ==Personal life==