Zooey Deschanel - Wikipedia

American actress, model, and musician

Zooey Claire Deschanel ( ; born January 17, 1980 ) [ 1 ] is an american actress, exemplar, musician, and songwriter. She made her film debut in Mumford ( 1999 ) and had a support function in Cameron Crowe ‘s film Almost Famous ( 2000 ). Deschanel is known for her deadpan roles in comedy films such as The Good Girl ( 2002 ), The New Guy ( 2002 ), Elf ( 2003 ), The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ( 2005 ), Failure to Launch ( 2006 ), Yes Man ( 2008 ), 500 Days of Summer ( 2009 ) and Our Idiot Brother ( 2011 ). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She has besides ventured into dramatic film territory with Manic ( 2001 ), All the Real Girls ( 2003 ), Winter Passing ( 2005 ), Bridge to Terabithia ( 2007 ), The Happening ( 2008 ) and The Driftless Area ( 2015 ). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] From 2011 to 2018, she starred as Jessica Day on the Fox situation comedy New Girl, for which she received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. For a few years starting in 2001, Deschanel performed in the jazz cabaret act If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies with actress Samantha Shelton. [ 7 ] In 2006, Deschanel teamed up with M. Ward to form She & Him, and subsequently released their debut album, Volume One, in 2008. They have since released five albums : Volume Two ( 2010 ), A Very She & Him Christmas ( 2011 ), Volume 3 ( 2013 ), Classics ( 2014 ), and Christmas Party ( 2016 ). She received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media for “ therefore long ”, which was featured on the soundtrack of the 2011 movie Winnie the Pooh. Besides sing, she plays keyboards, percussion, banjo, and uke. [ 8 ]

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Deschanel is besides a co-founder of the female-focused web site HelloGiggles, which was acquired by Time, Inc. in 2015. [ 9 ]

early life [edit ]

Deschanel was born in Los Angeles, California, [ 1 ] the younger daughter of cameraman and film director Caleb Deschanel and actress Mary Jo Deschanel ( née Weir ). Her parental grandfather was french, from Oullins, Rhône, and her parental grandma came from a Quaker kin ; she besides has swiss, Dutch, English, Irish, and early french ancestry. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] She was named after Zooey Glass, the male protagonist of J. D. Salinger ‘s 1961 novelette Franny and Zooey. [ 12 ] Her older sister is actress Emily Deschanel, who starred in the Fox crime comedy-drama series Bones. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Deschanel lived in Los Angeles, but spent much of her childhood travel because her beget shoot films on localization ; she by and by said that she : [ 15 ] [ unreliable source? ]

… hated all the traveling … I ‘m very felicitous nowadays that I had the experience, but at the clock I was just then measly to have to leave my friends in Los Angeles and go to places where they did n’t have any food I liked or things I was used to. — Zooey Deschanel

She attended Crossroads, a private preparatory educate in Santa Monica, where she befriended future co-stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Kate Hudson. [ 12 ] [ 16 ] She sang throughout high school, planning to pursue a career in musical theater and attending french Woods Festival of the Performing Arts. [ 11 ] She attended Northwestern University for nine months before dropping out to pursue acting. [ 15 ] [ 17 ]

Acting career [edit ]

1999–2002 : early acting credits [edit ]

Deschanel had a guest appearance on the television series Veronica’s Closet in 1998 and made her movie debut in Lawrence Kasdan ‘s drollery Mumford ( 1999 ), revolving around the neurotic residents in a little town and co-star Hope Davis, Jason Lee, Alfre Woodard and Mary McDonnell. besides in 1999, she appeared ( non-singing ) in the music television for The Offspring ‘s single “ She ‘s Got Issues “. Deschanel co-star in Cameron Crowe ‘s semi-autobiographical Almost Famous ( 2000 ), where she played Anita Miller, the rebellious older sister of a adolescent diarist. Despite a modest box office reception, the film received critical praise, [ 18 ] winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Film – Musical or Comedy. Deschanel appeared in the freelancer drama Manic ( 2001 ), as the love interest of a disruptive adolescent ( Joseph Gordon-Levitt ). The movie was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and received a limited theatrical handout. The New York Times found Deschanel to be “ peculiarly spontaneous, unmoved and emotionally direct ” in her character. [ 19 ] Following early notice, Deschanel took on supporting parts in four have films released throughout 2002 : Big Trouble, The New Guy, The Good Girl, and Abandon. In the comedy Big Trouble, with Tim Allen and Rene Russo, she played the daughter of a devoted and loath womanhood, and in the adolescent drollery The New Guy, starred as a guitar actor in a band. Deschanel portrayed a cynical, plain-spoken young womanhood working in a big-box store in the black dramedy The Good Girl, antonym Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal. The psychological thriller Abandon saw her play the roommate of a woman involved in her boyfriend ‘s disappearance. Deschanel besides made a one-episode appearance in Frasier, as an out-of-control young charwoman. The New York Times reported that Deschanel was “ one of Hollywood ‘s most sought young stars ”, [ 12 ] in 2002, and the Los Angeles Times wrote in early 2003 that Deschanel had become a recognizable type, due to “ her deadpan, sardonic and scene-stealing [ film ] performances ” as the protagonist ‘s best supporter. [ 11 ] Deschanel objected to her type, arguing, “ A lot of these roles are just a formula estimate of person ‘s best ally, and it ‘s like, I do n’t even have that many friends. In high school, I stayed home all the meter, so I do n’t know how I ‘m everybody ‘s best friend now. ” [ 11 ]

2003–2010 : discovery [edit ]

Deschanel obtained her first lead film function debut in the autonomous drama All the Real Girls ( 2003 ) as Noel, a sexually curious 18-year-old virgo who has a life-changing romance with an adrift 22-year-old. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was an arthouse success. Her performance received wide critical acclaim, [ 11 ] and Variety remarked : “ Performances are all credible and naturalistic, but standing out from the rest is Deschanel ‘s work, which evinces an impressively direct connection to her character ‘s emotions. The actress does a fantastic subcontract presenting a young womanhood who is trying, with varying degrees of success, to give voice to all sorts of things she has never felt or expressed before ”. [ 20 ] She received an Independent Spirit Award nominating speech for Best Actress. [ 21 ] besides in 2003, Deschanel starred opposite Will Ferrell in the Christmas drollery Elf as a deadpan department storehouse worker and the love interest of a man raised by Santa ‘s elves. [ 22 ] Reviewers found the film to be a “ game, good-natured family drollery ” as partially of an overall positive critical response ; [ 23 ] and, budgeted at US $ 33 million, Elf made US $ 220.4 million cosmopolitan. [ 24 ]
In 2004, Deschanel starred in Eulogy, and in 2005 play Trillian in the movie adaptation of Douglas Adams ‘s science fiction fresh The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. She acted in Winter Passing ( 2005 ), co-star Will Ferrell. Deschanel next appeared in Failure to Launch ( 2006 ), as the neurotic roommate of Sarah Jessica Parker ‘s character. She besides had a recurring character in four episodes of the Showtime television receiver serial Weeds from 2006 to 2007 where she played Kat, Andy Botwin ‘s far-out ex-girlfriend. In September 2006, it was announced that Deschanel had signed on to play 1960s singer Janis Joplin in the movie The Gospel According to Janis, to be co-written and directed by Penelope Spheeris. [ 25 ] The film was scheduled to begin shooting in 2006, but was then postponed indefinitely ; [ 26 ] it was then resurrected again, with a plan liberation date of 2012, before being cancelled raw in 2011. Deschanel expressed frustration with the cancellation, saying she had spent three years working on imitating Joplin ‘s abrasive singe voice. [ 27 ] In 2007, Deschanel appeared in Bridge to Terabithia, in which she played a far-out music teacher, and the enliven film Surf’s Up, voicing a penguin. She took on the brief function of Dorothy Evans in the revisionist Western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and starred in the B drollery Flakes, which was released in only one field. [ 28 ] Deschanel starred as DG in the Syfy Channel miniseries Tin Man, a re-imagined science fabrication version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It aired in December 2007. Deschanel besides narrated the children ‘s book Players in Pigtails. [ 29 ] She voiced Mary, Cletus ‘s daughter in three episodes of The Simpsons since debuting on the April 27, 2008, sequence, “ Apocalypse Cow “. [ 30 ] In M. Night Shyamalan ‘s thriller The Happening ( 2008 ), she starred antonym Mark Wahlberg as a pair trying to escape from an inexplicable lifelike disaster. Despite largely negative reviews, critic Roger Ebert felt that Wahlberg and Deschanel ‘s performances “ bring a quieten dignity to their characters ”, [ 31 ] and globally, the film made US $ 163 million. [ 32 ] She starred in the independent comedy Gigantic ( 2008 ), which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and was distributed for a limited dismissal in certain parts of the United States only. In the comedy Yes Man ( besides 2008 ), she played an irregular singer and the girlfriend of Jim Carrey ‘s character. [ 33 ] The film grossed US $ 223.1 million around the earth. [ 34 ] Deschanel reunited with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the autonomous quixotic drama about the development and death of a relationship (500) Days of Summer ( 2009 ). [ 35 ] The film garnered critical applaud and became a “ sleeper hit “, earning over $ 60 million in cosmopolitan returns, far exceeding its $ 7.5 million budget. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] [ 38 ] Mark Adams of the Daily Mirror found the film to be a “ modern romance for grown-ups ” and a “ sweet-natured, curious, deeply-romantic fib ” blessed with “ ace performances by Deschanel and Gordon-Levitt, who are both charming and have real chemistry ”. [ 39 ] In December 2009, Deschanel guest-starred in a Christmas episode of the Fox crime procedural comedy-drama Bones, which was the first-ever on-screen match of the Deschanel sisters. [ 40 ] [ 41 ]

2010–2018 : New Girl [edit ]

Deschanel was primitively the top choice for Janet van Dyne / The Wasp in an early draft of Joss Whedon ‘s The Avengers in which she would have played a outstanding function. however, once Scarlett Johansson was cast as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow, Deschanel was no longer in circumstance to portray the Wasp with the function rather going to Evangeline Lilly in Ant-Man and the Wasp. [ 42 ] Deschanel starred in the drollery Our Idiot Brother ( 2011 ) as the mugwump and bisexual baby of a dimwitted but ideal man ( Paul Rudd ). The production was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, to a generally positive critical reception. [ 43 ] She played Belladonna in the stoner fantasy-comedy Your Highness ( 2011 ), with Danny McBride and James Franco. [ 44 ] The film received negative reviews and bombed at the box function. [ 45 ] Describing her role, Roger Ebert noted in its review for the film : “ [ Deschanel is ] institute onstage, cursorily kidnapped by an evil sorcerer, spends a good softwood of time as a prisoner in his lair, is rescued and lives happily ever after. She might vitamin a well be a mannequin, for all she ‘s given to say and do. This intelligent, nuanced actress, standing there baffled. Used as a placeholder ”. [ 46 ] Deschanel signed on to star as a champagne and far-out teacher Jessica “ Jess ” Day on the Fox situation comedy New Girl, created by Elizabeth Meriwether. She became a manufacturer on the show and helped build the character, [ 47 ] which she has described as a separate of her, particularly in regards to “ the sort of enthusiasm and optimism ” of her youth. [ 48 ] The series premiered in September 2011, and USA Today described her operation as “ a role tailored to launch her from respected indie actor to certified [ television ] star, Deschanel soars, combining well-honed skills with a natural charm ”. [ 49 ] She has received an Emmy Award nominating speech and three Golden Globe nominations for her role. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] The series stopping point ran on May 15, 2018. [ 52 ] Deschanel hosted Saturday Night Live on February 11, 2012. [ 53 ] In Rock the Kasbah ( 2015 ), she played a Los Angeles singer taken to Afghanistan by her former director ( Bill Murray ). Despite a US $ 15 million budget, the drollery only made US $ 3 million at the north American box function. [ 54 ] She obtained the function of a mysterious woman in the neo-noir drama The Driftless Area ( 2015 ), screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and released for VOD. [ 55 ] She voiced a kindhearted Bergen, Bridget, in the animate family drollery Trolls ( 2016 ), which grossed US $ 344 million cosmopolitan. [ 56 ] She hosts, with Michael Bolton, in 2021, The Celebrity Dating Game on ABC. [ 57 ]

Music career [edit ]

Singing and performing [edit ]

In 2001, Deschanel formed If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies, a jazz cabaret act with colleague actress Samantha Shelton. [ 12 ] The pair performed around Los Angeles. [ 58 ] In March 2007, Deschanel contributed vocals to two songs “ Slowly ” and “ Ask Her to Dance ” on the album Nighttiming by Jason Schwartzman ‘s band Coconut Records. It was reported that Deschanel and M. Ward, who had previously performed with Deschanel on-stage, were recording music under the nickname She & Him. [ 59 ] Their first album, titled Volume One, was released by Merge Records on March 18, 2008. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] It received a strong reception from critics, with Paste magazine voting it the No. 1 Album of 2008. Patrick Caldwell of the Austin American Statesman wrote : “ The album gently rambled through 13 tracks of sun-dappled start, with a pacify Orbisonian charm and sweet, pensive vocals from Deschanel. ” [ 62 ]
Deschanel recorded “ The Fabric of My Life ” for a 2009 advertise campaign for Cotton Incorporated. [ 63 ] On March 23, 2010, the second She & Him album, Volume Two, was released. [ 64 ] Deschanel and M. Ward both featured on The Place We Ran From ( 2010 ), the album by Snow Patrol member Gary Lightbody ‘s side project, Tired Pony. Deschanel contributed vocals to the tracks “ Get on the Road ” and “ Point Me at Lost Islands ”, while M. Ward contributed vocals and guitar to the track “ Held in the Arms of Your Words ” and guitar to the track “ That Silver Necklace ”. [ 65 ]

Film-related music [edit ]

Deschanel performing in New York in 2008 Deschanel made her on-screen tattle debut in The New Guy ( 2002 ). In Elf ( 2003 ), she sings “ Baby, It ‘s Cold Outside “ with Will Ferrell in the bathroom shower picture, “ Auld Lang Syne “ with James Caan on piano and with Leon Redbone on the soundtrack. Her piano writing “ Bittersuite ” was used thematically in the benighted dramedy Winter Passing ( 2006 ), in which she co starred with Ferrell and Ed Harris, and besides sings “ My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean “ in the film. [ 77 ] In 2007, other singing credits followed : the television receiver musical Once Upon a Mattress ( “ An open for a Princess ”, “ In a little While ”, “ Normandy ”, and “ yesterday I Loved You ” ) ; [ 78 ] an honest-to-god cabaret sung in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ( “ A Bird in a deluxe cage ” ) ; and the short film Raving ( “ Hello, Dolly ! “ ). Deschanel and a cast of school children sing the Steve Earle birdcall “ Someday ” and War ‘s “ Why Ca n’t We Be Friends ? “ in Bridge to Terabithia. [ 79 ] In Yes Man ( 2008 ), Deschanel sings several songs featured in the film and on the film soundtrack, and is shown singing “ Uh-Huh ” and “ Sweet Ballad ” with San Franciscan all-girl electro soul-punk group Von Iva in a fabricated isthmus called “ Munchausen by Proxy ”. [ 80 ] In 500 Days of Summer ( 2009 ), Deschanel sings a cover of The Smiths ‘s “ Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want “ and it appears on the soundtrack of the film, as performed by She & Him. [ 81 ] She besides sings a cover of “ Sugar Town “ by Nancy Sinatra. Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt did a music video, called Bank Dance, directed by 500 Days of Summer director Marc Webb, to accompany the movie. It uses the She & Him song “ Why Do You Let Me Stay here ? “, and some complicated choreography, choreographed by Michael Rooney. Mason Novick, the film ‘s producer said, “ We made the short because Zooey came in and said, ‘I have this estimate … because I did n’t get to dance in the movie ‘ ” ( as Gordon-Levitt did ). [ 82 ] Deschanel sings “ The Greatest Most beautiful Love Song in All the Land ” with James Franco in the drollery Your Highness ( 2011 ). She besides appears with M. Ward in a number of songs on the soundtrack album for Disney ‘s animize version of Winnie the Pooh ( 2011 ), earning a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media nominating speech for “ so hanker ”. [ 83 ] Deschanel wrote and performed the subject song to New Girl. [ 84 ] besides, in season three ‘s sequence “ Prince ”, the song “ Fallinlove2nite ” is sung by Deschanel and Prince. [ 85 ] In Rock the Kasbah ( 2015 ), she sang a top of Meredith Brooks ‘s “ Bitch “, which is featured in the soundtrack for the film. [ 86 ] [ 87 ] In 2016, Deschanel voiced Bridget, the scullery maid in the animated film Trolls .

other professional highlights [edit ]

On September 27, 1999, Deschanel appeared in the music video “ She ‘s Got Issues “ for The Offspring. [ 88 ] Deschanel was a judge for the 9th Independent Music Awards. [ 89 ] In 2005, she modeled for Chanel and Clements Ribeiro, and in 2010, she signed to represent Rimmel. [ 90 ] In May 2011, after the achiever of her HelloGiggles YouTube channel, Deschanel, along with manufacturer Sophia Rossi and writer Molly McAleer, founded the web site HelloGiggles .com, an entertainment web site geared towards women. [ 91 ] [ 92 ] HelloGiggles.com was acquired by Time, Inc. in 2015. [ 9 ] In 2012, she was featured in a commercial for the iPhone 4S ( Siri ). [ 93 ] During a May 2012 performance at the Ryman Auditorium, country music singer Loretta Lynn announced that she was in the development stages of creating a Broadway musical from her autobiography and Deschanel would play the entitle role. Lynn said, “ there ‘s a fiddling girl binding stage that ‘s going to do the play of ‘ Coal Miner ‘s Daughter ‘ on Broadway ”. She then brought Deschanel onstage and the two sang a duet of the title song. [ 94 ] On September 21, 2012, it was announced that Deschanel was producing the drollery Must Be Nice, written by New Girl consulting producer J. J. Philbin. [ 95 ] In December 2020, Deschanel appeared in the music video for Katy Perry ‘s song “ not the end of the World “. [ 96 ]

personal life [edit ]

Deschanel is allergic to eggs, dairy, soy, and pale yellow gluten. [ 97 ] She used to be a vegan, [ 98 ] which she gave up because she found it unmanageable to eat adequate calories on a vegan diet due to her sensitivities to wheat and soy. [ 99 ] A year anterior to giving up her vegan diet, she was featured on episode eight of season one of Bravo ‘s Top Chef Masters, in which the chefs participating in the contest were challenged to cater a vegan lunch party for her family and friends using no soy or gluten. [ 100 ] After speaking with many food experts and farmers in her function as the host of the ATTN : series, Your Food’s Roots, she has since gone back to eating a vegetarian diet, citing the difficulty in knowing whether the animals used for meat have been sustainably and humanely raised. [ 101 ] In December 2008, Deschanel became engaged to musician Ben Gibbard, go singer for Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service. [ 102 ] They married on September 19, 2009, near Seattle, Washington. [ 103 ] On November 1, 2011, they announced their separation. [ 104 ] Deschanel filed for divorce on December 27, 2011, citing “ irreconcilable differences “. [ 105 ] The divorce was finalized on December 12, 2012. [ 106 ] Deschanel confirmed her battle to film manufacturer Jacob Pechenik in January 2015, [ 107 ] and they married in June 2015. [ 108 ] [ 109 ] They have two children : Elsie Otter, born in July 2015, and Charlie Wolf, born in May 2017. [ 110 ] [ 111 ] Deschanel and Pechenik announced their separation in September 2019. [ 112 ] Her divorce was finalized on June 1, 2020. [ 113 ] Deschanel started dating Property Brothers star Jonathan Scott after her announcement of the separation from Pechenik. [ 114 ] [ 115 ] They met while filming an episode of Carpool Karaoke: The Series in August 2019. [ 116 ] Deschanel converted to Judaism, her second husband ‘s faith. [ 117 ] [ 118 ]

Zooey Deschanel – Wikipedia