Zooey Deschanel
English language versionZooey Claire Deschanel (pronounced ; born January 17, 1980) is an American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter. In 1999, Deschanel made her film debut in Mumford, followed by her breakout role as young protagonist William Miller’s troubled older sister Anita in Cameron Crowe‘s 2000 semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous. Deschanel soon became known for her deadpan supporting roles in films such as Elf (2003), The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) and Failure to Launch (2006). She then began playing lead roles in films, including Yes Man (2008) and (500) Days of Summer (2009).
For a few years starting in 2001, Deschanel performed in the jazz cabaret act If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies with fellow actress Samantha Shelton.[1]keyboards, percussion, banjo and ukulele, and has sung in several of her films. Deschanel teamed up with M. Ward to release their debut album Volume One (recorded with M. Ward under the moniker She & Him) which was released in March 2008. The follow-up album Volume Two was released in the U.S. in March 2010. She is married to Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard. She plays
Early life
Zooey Deschanel, born in Los Angeles, California, is the daughter of cinematographer/director Caleb Deschanel and actress Mary Jo Deschanelnée Weir). She is of French (from her paternal grandfather) and Irish[2] and is the great granddaughter of Paul Deschanel, the 11th President of France.[3] She was named after Zooey Glass, the male protagonist of J. D. Salinger‘s 1961 novella Franny and Zooey.[4] Her older sister, Emily Deschanel, is also an actress and stars in the TV series Bones. ( descent,Deschanel lived in lower 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.”[5] She grew up in Canada, Yugoslavia, England and South Africa. She attended Crossroads, a private preparatory school in Santa Monica, California, where she befriended future co-stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Kate Hudson.[4] She sang throughout high school, planning to pursue a career in musical theatre.[2] She attended Northwestern University for seven months before dropping out to work as an actress.[5]
Career [Acting]
Deschanel appeared in a guest role on the television series Veronica’s ClosetLawrence Kasdan‘s 1999 comedy Mumford, and later in the year she appeared (non-singing) in the music video for The Offspring‘s single “She’s Got Issues“. In her second film, director Cameron Crowe‘s semi-autobiographical Almost Famous (2000), Deschanel played Anita Miller, the protagonist’s rebellious older sister. The film received critical praise,[6] but was not a box office success. She also appeared in Jimmy Fallon’s “Idiot Boyfriend” music video as his lead girl. before making her film debut inDeschanel played supporting roles in a series of films that include ManicDon Cheadle and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Big Trouble (2002), with Tim Allen and Rene Russo, Abandon (2002) alongside Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt and Melanie Lynskey, and The Good Girl (2002) alongside Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal. In late 2002, The New York TimesHollywood‘s most sought-after young stars,”[4] 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 friend.[2] Deschanel objected to her typecasting, arguing, “A lot of these roles are just a formula idea of somebody’s best friend, and it’s like, I don’t even have that many friends. In high school, I stayed home all the time, so I don’t know how I’m everybody’s best friend now.”[2] (2001), with reported that Deschanel was “one of
Deschanel appeared in Frasier, starring as Roz’s out-of-control cousin, Jen, in the Season 10 episode ‘Kissing Cousin’ in 2002. That year she also appeared in the film The New Guy as Nora, the guitar player in the lead character’s band, Suburban Funk.
After turning down several supporting roles, Deschanel played her first lead role in All the Real Girls (2003). Her performance as Noel, a sexually curious 18-year-old virgin who has a life-changing romance with an aimless 22-year-old, received critical praise,[2] and she received an Independent Spirit nomination for Best Actress.[7] Later in 2003, Deschanel played a deadpan department store worker opposite Will Ferrell in the comedy Elf, which became a box office hit.[8]
In 2007, Deschanel appeared in two children’s films: Bridge to Terabithia, in which she played Jesse’s quirky music teacher, and the animated film Surf’s Up, in which she voiced a penguin named Lani Aliikai. She played DG, the lead in the Sci Fi Channel miniseries Tin Man, a re-imagined science fiction version of L. Frank Baum‘s children’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Tin Man aired on Sci Fi in December 2007. Deschanel also narrated the children’s book Players in Pigtails.[12]
On April 27, 2008, she performed on The Simpsons, playing the role of Mary, Cletus‘s daughter,[13] and in June that year, she starred opposite Mark Wahlberg in M. Night Shyamalan‘s poorly received environmental thriller The Happening.
In 2008, Deschanel starred in Gigantic, and later that year in the comedy film Yes Man, opposite Jim Carrey.[14]
Deschanel was next seen as the title character in the 2009 award winning(500) Days of Summer, opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt (for a second time after Manic). The film, about the development and demise of a relationship, received widespread praise and was directed by long-time commercial and music video director Marc Webb.[15] The film received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical), but was ultimately defeated by The Hangover.[16] romantic-drama-comedy
Deschanel guest starred in a Christmas 2009 episode of Bones as Brennan’s never-before-seen cousin.[17] In the first-ever on-screen pairing of the Deschanel sisters, Zooey portrayed Margaret Whitesell, a distant relative of Emily’s Dr. Temperance Brennan. Brennan’s father, Max Keenan (guest star Ryan O’Neal), invites Margaret to spend Christmas with him and his daughter.[18]
In 2010, Deschanel secured the role of Belladonna in the upcoming fantasy comedy film Your Highness[19] alongside Natalie Portman and James Franco. Deschanel will star in the pilot for the HBO series I’m with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, in which she plays the role of Pamela Des Barres, who wrote a memoir based on her own experience as a former groupie.[20]
Film-related music
The New Guy was the first of Deschanel’s films in which she sang onscreen; in Elf she duetted with Will Ferrell in the bathroom shower scene on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside“, and was also heard singing it on the soundtrack with Leon Redbone. Subsequently, Deschanel has sung in Winter Passing (“My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean“), the 2005 television musical Once Upon a MattressThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and the 2007 short film Raving (“Hello, Dolly!“). Her piano composition “Bittersuite” was used thematically in the dark, off-beat 2004 dramedy Winter Passing, in which she starred alongside Will Ferrell and Ed Harris. (“An Opening For a Princess”, “In a Little While”, “Normandy”, and “Yesterday I Loved You”), an old cabaret song inIn the film Yes Man, Deschanel sings several songs featured in the film and on the film soundtrack, and is shown singing Uh-Huh and Sweet Ballad alongside San Franciscan all-girl electro soul-punk group Von Iva in a fictional band called Munchausen by Proxy.
(500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb also directed Deschanel and Gordon-Levitt in a music video, Bank Dance, with the She & Him song “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here“.
Non-film music
In 2001 Deschanel formed If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies, a jazz cabaretSamantha Shelton.[4] The pair performed around Los Angeles.[21] act with fellow actress
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. In May 2007, singer/songwriter M. Ward, who had previously performed with Deschanel onstage, said that he was “just finishing work” on her debut album,[22] which will feature songs written by Deschanel and produced by Ward.[23] Fox reported that Deschanel and Ward were recording under the moniker She & Him, and that the album, titled Volume One, would be released by Merge Records on March 18, 2008.[24][25]
An article on Pitchfork Media in December 2009 confirmed a March 23, 2010, release date for the second She & Him album, Volume Two.[26] In spring of 2010, She & Him will be playing on tour in support of Volume Two, performing in the USA and in Europe.[27]
Deschanel and M. Ward both featured on The Place We Ran From, the 2010 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”.[28]
Deschanel also performed “God Bless America” during the seventh inning stretch during game three of the National League Championship SeriesAT&T Park in San Francisco, California.[29] between the Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants on October 19, 2010 at
Other work
Deschanel is a judge for the ninth Independent Music Awards.[30]She has signed on to represent Rimmel.[31]
Personal life
Deschanel—who is allergic to eggs, dairy, and wheat gluten[32]—formerly adhered to a vegan diet[33] and was featured on episode eight of the first season of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters in which the chefs participating in the competition were challenged to cater a vegan lunch party for her family and friends using no eggs, dairy, soy, or gluten.[34] However, according to a recent interview with Health magazine, she had to come off the diet because her food sensitivities made it too difficult for her to stay healthy as a vegan.[35] In September 2009, Deschanel married fellow musician Ben Gibbard, lead vocalist for The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie.[36]Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Veronica’s Closet | Elena | Episode: “Veronica’s Fun and Pirates Are Crazy” |
| 1999 | Mumford | Nessa Watkins | |
| 2000 | Almost Famous | Anita Miller | |
| 2001 | Manic | Tracy | |
| 2002 | Good Girl, TheThe Good Girl | Cheryl | |
| 2002 | Abandon | Samantha Harper | |
| 2002 | Big Trouble | Jenny Herk | |
| 2002 | New Guy, TheThe New Guy | Nora | |
| 2002 | Sweet Friggin’ Daisies | Zelda | Short film |
| 2002 | Frasier | Jen | Episode: “Kissing Cousin“ |
| 2003 | Whatever We Do | Nikki | Short film |
| 2003 | All the Real Girls | Noel | Nominated – Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress Nominated – Independent Spirit Award Won – Mar del Plata Film Festival Award |
| 2003 | It’s Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be Wanted at All | Gas Station Girl | |
| 2003 | House Hunting | Christy | Short film |
| 2003 | Elf | Jovie | |
| 2004 | Cracking Up | Heidi | Episode: “Birds Do It” |
| 2004 | Eulogy | Kate Collins | |
| 2005 | Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, TheThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Trillian | |
| 2005 | American Dad! | Candy Striper Stripper / French Maid (voice) | Episode: “Stan Knows Best“ |
| 2005 | Winter Passing | Reese Holden | |
| 2005 | Once Upon a Mattress | Lady Larken | TV movie |
| 2006 | Failure to Launch | Kit | |
| 2006 | Live Free or Die | Cheryl | |
| 2006-2007 | Weeds | Kat | 4 episodes |
| 2007 | Good Life, TheThe Good Life | Frances | |
| 2007 | Go-Getter, TheThe Go-Getter | Kate | |
| 2007 | Bridge to Terabithia | Ms. Edmunds | |
| 2007 | Flakes | Miss Pussy Katz | |
| 2007 | Raving | Katie | Short film |
| 2007 | Surf’s Up | Lani Aliikai (voice) | |
| 2007 | Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, TheThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Dorothy Evans | |
| 2007 | Tin Man | DG | TV miniseries |
| 2008 | Gigantic | Happy Lolly | |
| 2008 | Simpsons, TheThe Simpsons | Mary (voice) | Episode: “Apocalypse Cow“ |
| 2008 | Happening, TheThe Happening | Alma Moore | |
| 2008 | Yes Man | Allison | |
| 2009 | (500) Days of Summer | Summer Finn | Nominated – Satellite Award |
| 2009 | Bones | Margaret Whitesell | Episode: “The Goop on the Girl“ |
| 2010 | Funny or Die Presents | Mary Todd Lincoln | Drunk History sketch; “Drunk History Vol. 5 w/ Will Ferrell, Don Cheadle & Zooey Deschanel” |
| 2010 | Havin’ a Summah | Video short | |
| 2011 | My Idiot Brother | Natalie | Completed |
| 2011 | Your Highness | Belladonna | Completed |
Discography
Solo
- “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” with Leon Redbone – Elf soundtrack
- “Hello, Dolly” (sung in Raving)
- “Someday” – Bridge To Terabithia (sung in the film but not included on the soundtrack)
- “Sugar Town” – (500) Days of Summer soundtrack
Munchausen By Proxy
- “Sweet Ballad” featuring Zooey Deschanel & Von Iva – Yes Man soundtrack
- “Uh-Huh” featuring Zooey Deschanel & Von Iva – Yes Man soundtrack
- “Keystar” featuring Zooey Deschanel & Von Iva – Yes Man soundtrack
- “Yes Man” featuring Zooey Deschanel & Von Iva – Yes Man soundtrack
She & Him
Studio albums- Volume One (March 18, 2008)[39] #71 US[40]
- Volume Two (March 23, 2010) #6 US
- “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?” (January, 2008)
- “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” (December, 2009)
- “In the Sun” (February, 2010)[41]
- “Thieves” (June, 2010)
- “I Put A Spell On You” (January 30, 2009) Starbucks’ Sweetheart CD
- “When I Get To The Border” (2007) on The Go-Getter soundtrack
- “Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want” (2009) on (500) Days of Summer soundtrack
Tired Pony
- “Get on the Road” The Place We Ran From
- “Point Me at Lost Islands” The Place We Ran From.
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