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 Simpsons
1989
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Bones
2005
American Dad!
2005
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Conan
2010
Frasier
1993
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2013
New Girl
2011
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Tamron Hall
2019
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
2012
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
Veronica's Closet
1997
Elf
2003
(500) Days of Summer
2009
Yes Man
2008
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019
Bridge to Terabithia
2007
Physical
2021
Harold and the Purple Crayon
2024
Surf's Up
2007
Live from E!
2002
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED
2012
Trolls World Tour
2020
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
Trolls
2016
Trolls Band Together
2023
Almost Famous
2000
Celebrity IOU
2020
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
The Happening
2008
StoryBots: Answer Time
2022
Tin Man
2007
Winnie the Pooh
2011
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
Failure to Launch
2006
Trixie Motel
2022
Cracking Up
2004
The New Guy
2002
Your Highness
2011
Big Trouble
2002
About Last Night
2022
Top Chef Masters
2009
The Good Girl
2002
White House Christmas
1998
These Amazing Shadows
2011
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
2020
Manic
2002
Trolls Holiday
2017
Merv
2025
Our Idiot Brother
2011
Gone Mental with Lior
2020
The Celebrity Dating Game
2021
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
2012
All the Real Girls
2003
Rock the Kasbah
2015
What Am I Eating? With Zooey Deschanel
2023
Eulogy
2004
Abandon
2002
Gigantic
2008
Flakes
2007
Live Free or Die
2006
Winter Passing
2006
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
The Go-Getter
2007
The Driftless Area
2015
The Happening: A Day for Night
2008
Celebrity Mix
2005
Visions of 'The Happening'
2008
Mumford
1999
Once Upon A Mattress
2005
Trolls 4
The Happening: Elements of a Scene
2008
Sweet Friggin' Daisies
2002
Dreamin' Wild
2023
The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show
2019
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012
Teen Choice Awards
1999
The Good Life
2007
Whatever We Do
2003
House Hunting
2003
Players in Pigtails
2004
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
Heather of the Valley
Trash Mountain
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
2005
Brian Wilson and Friends - A Soundstage Special Event
2015
Raving
2007
It's Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be Wanted at All
2003