Zooey Deschanel Claire was born January 17, 1980 in Los Angeles, CA. He and his older sister, the actress Emily was raised by his father, Caleb, Academy Award-winning photographer, and their mother, the actress Mary Jo. Deschanel, whose name was a glass of the history of man over nature Zooey by JD Salinger Franny and Zooey, spent a few years young people often hang out positions on a film set - despite the fact that deep down, hoped for a typical Deschanel, sitting in your home life. Despite this, the time was old enough to know what you were doing, wanted to be an actor, but his parents rejected the idea, saying it should wait until he had to take a driver's license in the city.
Deschanel attended the elite Crossroads school in Santa Monica, CA, alongside future co-star Kate Hudson and Jake Gyllenhaal, where he found his interest in singing and musical theater, at some point, considering a career in singing jazz Broadway. At 16, she appeared as Little Red Riding Hood in North Hollywood-based Interact Theatre Company production "forests". Driving license firmly in hand, Deschanel began to experiment and display components, landing episode of NBC's "Veronica's Closet" (1997-2000) just days before his 18 th birthday.Frustrated by the politics of Hollywood industry, Deschanel left Chicago to attend Northwestern University in the fall of 1998, seven months after his freshman year, realized he wanted to be interviewed again and headed to Los Angeles . His first coming as a self-conscious teenager on the psychiatrist's couch quiet Lawrence Kasdan comedy "Mumford" (1999). The launch in the autumn a large audience gave a brief introduction to the actress, who appeared in the video for "What matters" - a song by punk, folk quartet, The Offspring. The following year, she offered a more formal introduction, striking the public as a wise man, a flight attendant in the world ready and the rock of her older sister in Cameron Crowe, and roll epic "Almost Famous" (2000 ) - a film which also served as a classmate Kate Hudson Project small groups.
After "Almost Famous," Deschanel options expanded, allowing it to develop what would become an ongoing taste for independent films. Available in "Manic" (2001), she played the sullen, troubled residents of a psychiatric institution and the subject of a fellow patient of the condition. She just as easily switched gears to become the tart-to-mouth little girl against the city with another indie, "The Good Girl" (2002), starring Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal. Turning his attention to a musical change that s' is produced from an introduction to the feast of the filmmaker Sofia Coppola Jazz 2001, she and actress Samantha Shelton linked to a common interest in old jazz standards and decided to set up an action. With held period and a small backing band actresses would trek across Los Angeles between acting gigs in clubs under the name if all the stars were very babies.
When not onscreen, Deschanel also spends his time hanging with the boyfriend the same kind of music, Coppola's cousin, actor Jason Schwartzman, who she dated until 2005.
Returning to the larger projects, Deschanel played a role as the daughter of Rene Russo in the comedy "Big Trouble" (2002), and had a small role as a bandmate, DJ Qualls "in" The New Guy "(2002) before trying his hand at a thriller "Abandon" (2002) -. in which he plays the best friend of a college classmate tormented by the mysterious disappearance of his friend on a roll, keep your work projects, but Deschanel really chance to shine as the promising young director David Gordon Green. With its 2003 effort, "All the Real Girls" which was the embodiment of first love Christmas play, a city of 18 years, at the dawn of sexual awakening in Carolina North. Deschanel and Paul Schneider co-star has won positive reviews for playing the intimate romance between a young virgin, and the City stud success.
By 2004, its role in the film had earned a Green Independent Spirit Award nomination, but "Elf," Deschanel was now looking for an actor, took the star of Disney's long-in-progress adaptation of cult novel by Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." As a foreigner love Trillian, Deschanel had serious fans of sci-fi satire about debating the merits of his cast well before mid-2004 had even started filming. After wrapping the end of production of 'year, he relaxed and looked at the release of her indie ensemble comedy "Eulogy" (2004), who, confused, grieving nephew, on condition that the monument.
As in "Hitchhiker's Guide" in the film mixed reviews in the summer of 2005, Deschanel has constantly continued to projects of various sizes. A little 'delayed the release of "Winter Passing" (2005) has found traveling Ferrell darker for the removal of the family, but the actress had put her singing seriously use the television as Lady Larken ABC movie musical "A Once, when the mattress "(2005) - an adaptation of the maximum. The fairy tale classic The Princess and the Pea "Deschanel a strange feeling, even managed to steal the show by Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey is a by-the-books rom-com" Failure to Launch "(2006), high-concept comedy, which is presented character Deschanel Kit - an off-kilter, Nightingale-hating roommate.
Increasingly using a variety of display options, Deschanel found another interesting place to go on television. For Showtime's "Weeds" (2005 -), a series of suburban mother dealing marijuana to make ends meet, Deschanel as Kat reintroduced a wild, life in and out of her ex-boyfriend. By 2007, it was the most half a dozen projects that extended independent study area. Deschanel has decided to mix things as a former famous child actor of the social bond Misfit their small town malaise in "The Good Life", and the owner of a stolen car associate it with a small store comedy "go-getter."
Deeper in 2007 shook the dust Deschanel "The Hitchhiker's Guide" yet to go to the cinema of the fantastic reception. Growing number of converts, launched as a music teacher and a charming young crush enter your username and adaptation of the novel "Bridge to Terabithia" Disney seemed ideal for children. It has also expanded to continue to include the voice-over work, when his voice in several animated production of "Surf up." As Lani Aliikai, sexy, exuberant penguin lifeguard Pen Gu Island, the film was widely praised for its impressive history and CGI animation. Do not waste a moment to reconnect to the past, Deschanel co-star Paul Schneider, as they both went to gritty Old West to tell the story to the screen, "Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (2007) - the film starring by Brad Pitt.
If all Deschanel career expectations remained, there were more than their skills and noblest of the challenges ahead. In the wake of "Terabithia," Deschanel went on Sci-Fi channel, embodying a Dorothy-esque character named General Manager of "Tin Man" (2007), a very twisted take "The Wizard of Oz". Tweaking the beloved Judy Garland cake model appears to portray life in front of an icon, but under the brand label will be very useful Deschanel as Joplin tragic singer / songwriter Janis. Cast in the biopic, Deschanel has spent several months in research vocal training to improve Joplin rasp makes this compulsory. More "Gospel According to Janis" (2008) - one of the films competing Joplin - is committed to make way for the actress and singer to a new level of recognition. Before the project went into production, starred in M.
Night Shyamalan "The Happening" (2008), a dark apocalyptic thriller about a family fleeing a natural disaster that threatens the very existence of humanity.
* Also credited:
Zooey Deschanel Claire
* Born:
Claire Deschanel Zooey January 17, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA
* Job title:
Actor, Singer
Family
* Father: Caleb Deschanel. Academy Award nominated filmmaker, was originally a member of the production team of American Zoetrope with George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola
* Mother: Mary Jo Deschanel. Plays the wife of Ed Harris in the film adaptation of The Right Stuff (1983)
* Sister: Emily Deschanel. Born in 1976, star of FOX's Bones
Kin
* Companion: Jason Schwartzman. Date for several years c. 2005, closer together
* Spouse: Ben Gibbard. The singer of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, the commitment announced in December 2008, married September 19, 2009
Education
* Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
* Crossroads, Santa Monica, California
Milestones
* 1998 TV acting debut in an episode of NBC's Closet Veronica ss
* 1999 Film acting debut in Lawrence Kasdan's Mumford s
* 2000 appeared as the protagonist's rebellious older sister in Cameron Crowe Almost Famous
* 2001 is created if all the stars were pretty babies, a cabaret jazz with fellow actress Samantha Shelton
* 2002 started as a cynical Jennifer Aniston collaborator Good Girl by Miguel Arteta
* 2003 started as a love interest for Will Ferrell in Elf, Jon Favreau
* 2003 first starring role, All the Real Girls, playing the virgin who captures the heart of a womanizer, he received a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress
* 2004 co-starred in the black comedy Eulogy
* 2005 Played the daughter of a solitary writer (Ed Harris) in Winter Passing
* 2005 starred as Trillian, and a big screen adaptation of the Guide to the galaxy of the Milky Way
* 2006 Played Andy Botwin s eccentric ex-girlfriend, Kat in four episodes of the Showtime series, Weeds
* 2006 Interpreted by neurotic roommate Sarah Jessica Parker in Failure to Launch
* 2007 DG-cast as the Tin Man (Sci-Fi), a six-hour miniseries based on the book by L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz
* 2007 For the role of Robert Ford S (Casey Affleck) girlfriend in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
* 2008 appeared with Mark Wahlberg in M. S The Happening Night Shyamalan
* 2008 Co-starred Jim Carrey Yes Man
* 2008 collaboration with singer-songwriter M. Ward on his first album, Volume One, recorded under the name She & Him
* 2009 co-star with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer
By summer, his status as one of the last face of Hollywood was still secured a good-hearted role in the department store elf, provisionally Romancing actual recording of the Elves Will Ferrell in "Elf" (2003). Deschanel was up to add a soundtrack to his voice, singing with Leon Redbone in the donation of "Baby it's cold outside."
* 2009 has played an eccentric rich girl, along with Paul Dano in the independent film Gigantic
* 2011 Played Paul Rudd is the sister of our brother bisexual hippie idiot
Favorites * 2011 as a woman who moves in with newly single men she meets three roommates on craigslist on the Fox comedy series new girl
* Played Little Red Riding Hood in Interact production of the Theatre Company of the musical Into the Woods