TMI (Today’s Movie Info)
ZOOEY DESCHANEL has struck TV gold with her new comedy series “New Girl”
Previously she was best known as “the Queen of Indies” due to the number of independent and arthouse films she was part of. It started with Mumford (1999) and Almost Famous (2000), and her status jumped after Elf (2003) and again in 2009 with (500) Days of Summer.
Zooey was born into a show-biz family. Her father Caleb Deschanel is a 5 time Academy Award nominated cinematographer (The Right Stuff, The Natural, The Passion of the Christ) and her mother Mary Jo Deschanel is an actress best known for the TV series “Twin Peaks” (she was also Annie Glenn in The Right Stuff). Of course, her older sister is Emily Deschanel, the star of the long running TV series “Bones”.
According to her parents, they named her for the lead male character in the novel “Franny and Zooey” by J.D. Salinger.
Zooey’s two year marriage to Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie recently ended in divorce.
She is half of the indie musical duo, She & Him, with M. Ward
She currently has no new movies in the works as she concentrates on her hit TV series
