Zooey Deschanel

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Zooey Deschanel: Biography

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Birth Name: Zooey Claire Deschanel
Birth Place: Los Angeles, CA
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 01/17/1980, Capricorn
Profession: Actor; singer

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Zooey Deschanel: TV Guide News

Will FNL's Minka Kelly Get Some Summer Loving? | Movie News | 5/8/2008
Friday Night Lights' Minka Kelly is joining Joseph Gordon-Levitt (3rd Rock From the Sun) and Zooey Deschanel (Weeds) in 500 Days of Summer, an offbeat comedy slated for a January 2009 release.Kelly will play a woman who has a chance meeting with Gordon-Levitt's character while at a job interview. Meanwhile, he is hopelessly in love with a woman (Deschanel) who doesn't believe in true love. — J.R. WhalenMore Movie News:• Mrs. Garrett Does What with Adam Sandler?!• Christmas Spirit: Frank Miller's Latest to Arrive Early• Juno's Ellen Page to Take in Some Eyre read more
Movie News: Jon Tenney Joins Stepfather and More | Today's News: Our Take | 2/28/2008
The Closer's Jon Tenney has joined the remake of 1987's The Stepfather. Tenney will play a dad trying to reconnect with his teen son (Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley) after a divorce. Oh, and Hidden Palms' dewy Amber Heard is now playing Badg's GF, a role previously eyed by FNL's Adrienne Palicki.... Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) will star in and exec-produce Gigantic, an offbeat comedy about a mattress salesman and a woman he meets in his store. Zooey Deschanel will also star.... DreamWorks Animation has pushed the release of the 3-D How to Train Your Dragon to March 26, 2010, after realizing the original November '09 date was overcrowded with other 3-D flicks: A Christmas Carol (starring Jim Carrey) and James Cameron's Avatar. — Adam Bryant read more
It's Showtime for West Winger, Princess Leia | Today's News: Our Take | 5/4/2007
The West Wing's Donna ain't lovelorn no more. Janel Moloney is joining the cast of Showtime's Brotherhood for at least four episodes this season, playing a woman who has an affair with Jason Clarke's ambitious politico. (All together now: Poor Annabeth Gish.)In other Showtime news, in addition to Matthew Modine joining Weeds for at least 10 episodes (first scooped by the Ausiello Report, he'll serve as a love interest for both Nancy and Celia), Zooey Deschanel's krazy Kat is returning for the Season 3 opener, while Carrie Fisher will guest this season as Celia's "May-the-divorce-be-with-you" lawyer. read more
Sci Fi's Ozsome Series Casts Its Dorothy | Today's News: Our Take | 2/16/2007
Speaking of Bones, Emily Deschanel's sister, Zooey Deschanel, has landed the female lead in Tin Man, Sci Fi Channel's trippy retelling of The Wizard of Oz. Per Variety, Deschanel will play DG, a young woman who finds herself transported from her dull existence into the fantasy-filled world of The O.Z. (Outer Zone). As previously reported, Alan Cumming is on board as a friend of Dorothy's, the Scarecrow-like Glitch. The six-hour miniseries is eyed for a December debut. read more
Hitchhiker's Honey Spices up Sci Fi | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 5/10/2005
Like her costars, Sam Rockwell and Martin Freeman, Zooey Deschanel was no aficionado of Douglas Adams' seminal comic novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when she signed on to be part of the big-screen version, now in theaters."I read the book in the fifth grade," she says. "It was kind of a big thing to read Hitchhiker's at that age. Everybody thought we were so sophisticated to be reading it, but because I was 10 I didn't really get a lot of the humor. I thought I did, but I read it ... read more

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John C. Reilly, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mike White, Jennifer Aniston, Zooey Deschanel, Tim Blake Nelson, John Caroll Lynch, 2002 Sundance Film Festival courtesy Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com

Tin Man courtesy Alan Markfield/Sci Fi Channel

Tin Man courtesy Art Streiber/Sci Fi Channel

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Zooey Deschanel: TV Listings

Zooey Deschanel: Credits

Title	Year	Type
The Go-Getter (Actor - Kate)	2008	Movie
The Happening (Actor - Alma Moore)	2008	Movie
Bridge To Terabithia (Actor - Ms. Edmonds)	2007	Movie
Flakes (Actor - Rachel Irene "Pussy" Katz)	2007	Movie
Surf's Up (Actor - Lani Aliikai)	2007	Movie