Zooey Deschanel Biography
Zooey Claire Deschanel is an American actress, musician and singer-songwriter.Deschanel made her film debut in 1999's Mumford and soon became known for memorable, deadpan supporting roles in films such as Almost Famous and The New Guy. She then began playing lead roles, including All the Real Girls,Elf,Winter Passing,The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy , Tin Man.
Zooey Claire Deschanel was born on January 17, 1980 in Los Angeles, California.She is the daughter of Academy Award-nominated cinematographer and director Caleb Deschanel and actress Mary Jo Deschanel (née Weir). She is of Irish and French descent.She was named after Zooey Glass, the male protagonist of J. D. Salinger's 1961 novella Franny and Zooey. Her older sister Emily Deschanel is also an actress and stars in the TV series Bones.She lived in Los Angeles, but spent much of her childhood traveling because her father shot films on location; she later said that she "hated all the traveling,I'm really happy now that I had the experience, but at the time I was just so miserable to have to leave my friends in Los Angeles and go to places where they didn't have any food I liked or things I was used to. She attended Crossroads, a private preparatory school in Santa Monica, California, where she befriended future co-stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Kate Hudson.She also attended the French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts summer camp and sang throughout high school, planning to pursue a career in musical theatre. She attended Northwestern University for seven months before dropping out to work as an actress.
Deschanel and Ward were recording under the moniker and that the album, titled Volume One, would be released by Merge Records on March 18, 2008.On April 27, 2008, she appeared on The Simpsons, playing the role of Mary, Cletus's daughter.In June 2008, Deschanel starred opposite Mark Wahlberg in M. Night Shyamalan's environmental thriller The Happening.She stars in the 2008 comedy film Yes Man, opposite Jim Carrey.She sings several songs featured in the film and is shown singing Uh-Huh and Sweet Ballad alongside San Franciscan all-girl electro soul-punk group Von Iva in a band called Munchausen by Proxy.