Full Name: Zooey Claire Deschanel
DOB: January 17th 1980
Age: 33
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Job: Actress, Model, singer-songwriter, musician
Partners: She was married to Ben Gibbard from 2009-2012
Parents: Caleb Deschanel and Mary Jo Deschanel
Siblings: Emily Deschanel (sister)
Ancestry: French (paternal grandfather) Swiss, Dutch, English and Irish.
Religion She Was Raised : Roman Catholic
Zooey's dad is an Academy Award–nominated cinematographer and director and her mother is an actress. Her older sister Emily is also an actress who stars in Bones. She grew up travelling as he father filmed.
She attended Crossroads school in Santa Monica, California where she met her future co-stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Kate Hudson. She attended North Western University for 9 months before dropping out to pursue acting.
She appeared on Veronica's Closet as a guest role. Then she made her film debut in 1999 in the film Mumford.
Filmography:
1998- Veronica's Closet as Elena and Mumford as Vanessa Watkins
2000- Almost Famous as Anita Miller
2001-Manic as Tracy
2002-The Good Girl as Cheryl, Abandon as Samantha Harper, Big Trouble as Jenny Herk,The New Guy as Nora,Sweet Friggin' Daisies as Zelda and Fraiser as Jen
2003-Whatever We Do as Nikki, All The Real Girls as Noel, It's Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be Wanted at All as Gas Station Girl, House Hunting as Christy and Elf as Jovie
2004- Cracking Up as Heidi and Eulogy as Kate Collins
2005-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Trillian, American Dad! as Candy Striper Stripper/French Maid (voice), Winter Passing as Reese Holden and Once Upon a Mattress as Lady Larken
2006- Failure to Launch as Kit and Live Free or Die as Cheryl
2006-07- Weeds as Kat
2007- The Good Life as Frances, The Go-Getter as Kate, Bridge to Terabithia as Ms. Edmunds, Flakes as Miss Pussy Katz, Raving as Katie, Surf's Up as Lani Aliikai, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Dorothy Evans and Tin Man as DG
2008- Gigantic as Happy Lolly, The Happening as Alma Moore, Yes Man as Alison and Secret Wild Attic as Antonia, Suzana
2008-13- the Simpsons as Mary
2009- (500) Days of Summer as Summer Finn and Bones as Margaret Whitesell and
2010-Funny or Die Presents as Mary Todd Lincoln and Havin' a Summah "...more of a winter person"
2011-Our Idiot Brother as Natalie and Your Highness as Belladonna
2011- present- New Girl as Jessica "Jess" Day
Zooey is in a band called She & Him with M. Ward. They have many albums and songs released.
In 2003 Zooey won Best Actress at Mar del Plata Film Festival for her work on All the Real Girls. In 2012 she won 2 awards. She won Best Comedy Actress at Critic's Choice Television Awards New Girl and Favourite Actress at TV Guide Awards both for her work on.
(AN: I will try to add more like the names of her songs and albums soon! Keep your eyes peeled!)
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