Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel (born January 17, 1980) is an American actress, musician and singer. Deschanel made her film debut in 1999’s Mumford and soon became known for memorable, deadpan supporting roles in films such as Almost Famous (2000), The New Guy (2002), Big Trouble (2002) and The Good Girl (2002). She then began playing lead roles, including All the Real Girls (2003), Elf (2003), Winter Passing (2005), Failure to Launch (2006), and Bridge to Terabithia (2007).
It reads like the screenplay for a 1960s B-movie musical aimed at the teen drive-in crowd: A glamorous, young Hollywood actress meets up with a scruffy roots rocker, and the unlikely duo make beautiful music together.
It doesn’t sound like the sort of movie that Zooey Deschanel would agree to star in (although she was in M. Night Shyamalan’s hilariously bad “The Happening,” so who knows?). But she’s living the real-life version with indie rocker M. Ward as the duo She & Him, who together played an utterly charming show at the Barrymore Theatre on Friday night.
The well-attended show was the final night of She & Him’s summer tour, and the duo (along with four other band members) visibly seemed to be having fun on stage. Wearing a bright-blue party dress and matching flower in her hair, Deschanel hopped up and down, banging her tambourine gleefully as Ward played twangy guitar on the bouncier tunes, like “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?”
Since 2001, Deschanel has performed in the jazz cabaret act If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies with fellow actress Samantha Shelton. She has sung in several of her films, and her debut album Volume One (recorded with M. Ward under the moniker She & Him) was released on March 18, 2008.
Zooey Deschanel is the sister of Emily Deschanel who stars in the FOX TV series Bones as Dr. Temperance Brennan.
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