Zooey is the younger sister of “Bones” star Emily Deschanel, making a name for herself this fall in the brand new comedy “New Girl”. Zooey seems to be playing herself, a quirky girl with a heart of gold, who spontaneously breaks out in song and dance.
She’s been married to fellow musician, “Death cab for cutie” frontman Ben Gibbard since 2009. She has written and performed songs for various soundtracks for movies such as “Elf”, “Days of Summer” and “Yes Man”. Besides being a singer/songwriter, she also plays the keyboards, percussion, banjo, and ukulele.
Even though acting and singing is keeping her busy, she recently launched “HelloGiggles”, an entertainment website, which is specifically geared toward a female audience. Other gigs include a contract with make-up company Rimmel, and being a judge for the ninth Independent Music Awards.
Although she’s opposed to being typecasted as the protagonists’ best girl friend, saying: “A lot of these roles are just a formula idea of somebody’s best friend, and it’s like, I don’t even have that many friends… so I don’t know how I’m everybody’s best friend now.”, it’s probably not gonna change soon. Seriously, who wouldn’t want to be friends with hilarious Zooey?