Zooey Deschanel

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Zooey Deschanel. Actress: New Girl. Zooey Deschanel was born in 1980 into a showbiz family. Her father, Caleb Deschanel, is an Academy Award-nominated cinematographer (perhaps most notably for Die Passion Christi (2004)) and her mother, Mary Jo Deschanel (née Weir), is an actress who appeared in Das Geheimnis von Twin Peaks (1990). Her paternal grandfather was French, and her other roots include English, German, Scottish, Irish, and Dutch. Driven from an...