Zooey Deschanel
Acting
Biography
Zooey Deschanel (born January 17, 1980) is an American actress and musician. She made her film debut in Mumford (1999) and had a supporting role in Cameron Crowe's film Almost Famous (2000). Deschanel is known for her deadpan roles in comedy films such as The Good Girl (2002), The New Guy (2002), Elf (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Failure to Launch (2006), Yes Man (2008), and 500 Days of Summer (2009). From 2011 to 2018, she starred as Jess Day on the Fox sitcom New Girl, for which she received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. Deschanel is also a co-founder of the female-focused website HelloGiggles, which was acquired by Time Inc. in 2015.
As actor 100
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Simpsons
1989
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
American Dad!
2005
Bones
2005
Saturday Night Live
1975
Conan
2010
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Frasier
1993
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2013
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
New Girl
2011
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The Tamron Hall Show
2019
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
2012
Bridge to Terabithia
2007
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019
Veronica's Closet
1997
Trolls World Tour
2020
Live from E!
2002
Physical
2021
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED
2012
(500) Days of Summer
2009
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
Celebrity IOU
2020
Trolls
2016
Trolls Band Together
2023
Almost Famous
2000
Failure to Launch
2006
The Happening
2008
Yes Man
2008
The New Guy
2002
Surf's Up
2007
Winnie the Pooh
2011
Elf
2003
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
StoryBots: Answer Time
2022
Tin Man
2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
Harold and the Purple Crayon
2024
Cracking Up
2004
Trixie Motel
2022
Your Highness
2011
Trolls Holiday
2017
The Good Girl
2002
About Last Night
2022
Big Trouble
2002
Our Idiot Brother
2011
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
2020
Top Chef Masters
2009
The Celebrity Dating Game
2021
White House Christmas
1998
Merv
2025
Gone Mental with Lior
2020
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
Rock the Kasbah
2015
Live Free or Die
2006
Manic
2002
Once Upon A Mattress
2005
Winter Passing
2006
All the Real Girls
2003
Eulogy
2004
Gigantic
2008
Abandon
2002
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
2012
These Amazing Shadows
2011
What Am I Eating? With Zooey Deschanel
2023
Flakes
2007
Mumford
1999
The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show
2019
Dreamin' Wild
2023
The Go-Getter
2007
The Driftless Area
2015
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
2005
Celebrity Mix
2005
Brian Wilson and Friends - A Soundstage Special Event
2015
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
2005
The Good Life
2007
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012
Visions of 'The Happening'
2008
The Happening: Elements of a Scene
2008
Trolls 4
Teen Choice Awards
1999
Trash Mountain
2026
House Hunting
2003
Whatever We Do
2003
The Happening: A Day for Night
2008
It's Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be Wanted at All
2003
Sweet Friggin' Daisies
2002
Heather of the Valley
Players in Pigtails
2004
Raving
2007
