Zooey Deschanel

  • Actress and singer Zooey Deschanel has appeared in a range of independent and mainstream films, including Almost Famous, All the Real Girls, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Elf. She is the daughter of cinematographer Caleb Deschanel (The Passion of the Christ) and actress Mary Jo Deschanel (Twin Peaks).
  • Engagement

    inTouch Weekly reported on December 29, 2008, that Deschanel and Hunter Burgan were engaged.inTouch: Zooey Deschanel gets engaged! (December 29, 2008) Later in the day the website PerezHilton.com and People magazine printed the actress was actually engaged to Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard.People: Zooey Deschanel Is Engaged! (December 29, 2008)
  • Musical Career

    Deschanel performs with singer-songwriter M. Ward as She & Him, and also as part of the jazz cabaret act If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies. She frequently sings in her film roles as well. She and Will Ferrell sang "Baby It's Cold Outside" together in Elf, and she reprised the song on the soundtrack with Leon Redbone. In 2007's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Deschanel recreated a mid-19th Century cabaret performance. She trained for several months to portray Janis Joplin in a biopic to be filmed by Wayne's World director Penelope Spheeris, but the project fell through.

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