Zooey Deschanel

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.

Filmography (99 Appearances)

Heather of the Valley

TBA

Trash Mountain

TBA

Trolls 4

TBA

Merv

2025

Harold and the Purple Crayon

2024

Trolls Band Together

2023

Dreamin' Wild

2023

What Am I Eating? With Zooey Deschanel

2023

StoryBots: Answer Time

2022

The Jennifer Hudson Show

2022

Trixie Motel

2022

About Last Night

2022

Physical

2021

The Celebrity Dating Game

2021

The Holiday Movies That Made Us

2020

Celebrity IOU

2020

Gone Mental with Lior

2020

Trolls World Tour

2020

The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show

2019

Tamron Hall

2019

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2019

Today with Jenna & Sheinelle

2019

Trolls Holiday

2017

Carpool Karaoke: The Series

2017

Trolls

2016

Rock the Kasbah

2015

Brian Wilson and Friends - A Soundstage Special Event

2015

The Driftless Area

2015

The Late Late Show with James Corden

2015

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

2013

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

2013

Ben Lee: Catch My Disease

2012

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED

2012

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

2012

FOX 25th Anniversary Special

2012

New Girl

2011

Our Idiot Brother

2011

Your Highness

2011

Winnie the Pooh

2011

These Amazing Shadows

2011

Conan

2010

Who Do You Think You Are?

2010

(500) Days of Summer

2009

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009

Top Chef Masters

2009

Yes Man

2008

The Happening: A Day for Night

2008

Visions of 'The Happening'

2008

The Happening: Elements of a Scene

2008

Gigantic

2008

The Happening

2008

Flakes

2007

Tin Man

2007

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007

Surf's Up

2007

Raving

2007

Bridge to Terabithia

2007

The Go-Getter

2007

The Good Life

2007

Live Free or Die

2006

Failure to Launch

2006

Winter Passing

2006

Once Upon A Mattress

2005

Bones

2005

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

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

2005

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2005

American Dad!

2005

Celebrity Mix

2005

Eulogy

2004

Cracking Up

2004

Players in Pigtails

2004

Elf

2003

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

2003

House Hunting

2003

It's Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be Wanted at All

2003

Real Time with Bill Maher

2003

All the Real Girls

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003

Whatever We Do

2003

Abandon

2002

Sweet Friggin' Daisies

2002

The Good Girl

2002

The New Guy

2002

Big Trouble

2002

Live from E!

2002

Manic

2001

Almost Famous

2000

Mumford

1999 Debut

Teen Choice Awards

1999

White House Christmas

1998

Veronica's Closet

1997

Frasier

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992

The Simpsons

1989

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988
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