• 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).

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: January 17, 1980
  2. Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
  3. Sibling: Emily Deschanel of Bones
  4. Engaged to Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben GibbardPeople: Zooey Deschanel Is Engaged! (December 29, 2008)
  5. Childhood friends with Jason Schwartzman
  6. Attended Crossroads prep school in Santa Monica with Jake Gyllenhaal and Kate Hudson
  7. Appeared in the music video for The Offspring's "She's Got Issues"
  8. Named after a J.D. Salinger character named "Zooey Glass"
  9. Deschanel is in a band with M. Ward called She & Him, they released their debut album in 2008
  10. Guest judge on Top Chef Masters

• 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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