Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel
For her lead role as Jess on New Girl, Zooey Deschanel was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She also won the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series (tying with Amy Poehler) and was nominated for a Golden Globe (Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series Comedy or Musical).
An entertainer in every sense of the word, Deschanel brings the classical leading lady back to the modern audience with her old-fashioned charm. Her starring roles in the feature films (500) Days of Summer opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Yes Man opposite Jim Carrey, cemented her mainstream presence.
After making her feature film debut in 1999 in Lawrence Kasdan’s Mumford, Deschanel’s breakout performance was in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous. She earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Lead Actress for All the Real Girls and lent her voice talents to the animated feature Surf's Up. Deschanel was the lead in the Emmy-nominated miniseries, Tin Man.
Her additional credits include The Good Girl, Eulogy, the holiday classic Elf, Failure to Launch, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Bridge to Terabithia, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Live Free or Die, Flakes, Gigantic, The Go-Getter; The Good Life, Winter Passing, The Happening, Abandon, Big Trouble and Your Highness.
Music has always been a passion for Deschanel. She has earned rave reviews and popular acclaim for She & Him, her musical collaboration with M. Ward.
Named after the male character in J. D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey, Deschanel spent much of her childhood on location with her actress mother, Mary Jo, and her Academy Award-nominated cinematographer father, Caleb. She credits her father with instilling in her a keen visual sense and great style.
An entertainer in every sense of the word, Deschanel brings the classical leading lady back to the modern audience with her old-fashioned charm. Her starring roles in the feature films (500) Days of Summer opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Yes Man opposite Jim Carrey, cemented her mainstream presence.
After making her feature film debut in 1999 in Lawrence Kasdan’s Mumford, Deschanel’s breakout performance was in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous. She earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Lead Actress for All the Real Girls and lent her voice talents to the animated feature Surf's Up. Deschanel was the lead in the Emmy-nominated miniseries, Tin Man.
Her additional credits include The Good Girl, Eulogy, the holiday classic Elf, Failure to Launch, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Bridge to Terabithia, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Live Free or Die, Flakes, Gigantic, The Go-Getter; The Good Life, Winter Passing, The Happening, Abandon, Big Trouble and Your Highness.
Music has always been a passion for Deschanel. She has earned rave reviews and popular acclaim for She & Him, her musical collaboration with M. Ward.
Named after the male character in J. D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey, Deschanel spent much of her childhood on location with her actress mother, Mary Jo, and her Academy Award-nominated cinematographer father, Caleb. She credits her father with instilling in her a keen visual sense and great style.
