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Zooey Deschanel was born in 1980 into a showbiz family. Her father, Caleb Zooey Deschanel is an Academy Award-nominated cinematographer (perhaps most notably for The Passion of the Christ (2004)) and her mother, Mary Jo Zooey Deschanel (née Weir) is an actress who starred in "Twin Peaks" (1990). Driven from an early age to become a successful actress, Zooey Deschanel got her big break aged 17 playing a model in TV sitcom "Veronica's Closet" (1997). She got her first film role the following year in Mumford (1999), which prompted her to quit university to pursue acting full-time.

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Mostly thanks to a role in Cameron Crowe's popular biopic, Almost Famous (2000), Zooey Deschanel's rise to fame has been steadily increasing as the 21st century wears on. Her distinctive acting style found her critical acclaim in 2003 when she was voted Best Actress at the Mar Del Plata Film Festival for her role in David Gordon Green's All the Real Girls (2003). She also gained a Best Female Lead nomination (for All the Real Girls (2003)) at the following year's Independent Spirit Awards, but lost out to Charlize Theron.

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Known for her stellar turns in mostly indie flicks, actress and singer Zooey Deschanel immediately polarizes us guys into one of two camps: On one side, there are those who discount her unconventional looks, preferring a more cookie cutter type of beauty. In the other camp stands a legion of guys whose devotion to Zooey Deschanel stems precisely from her fully nonconformist look, taking it as a wholesale rejection of all those largely phony physical traits Hollywood seems overanxious to celebrate.

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Measuring in at a modest 34-24-35, Zooey Deschanel has been called "the Megan Fox of the hipster set" and her baby blues have the power to stop men in their tracks, but here she scores sex appeal points for one reason above all others: Despite her lack of bombastic curves and despite the fact that she doesn't undergo enormous, transformative, Madonna-like changes every other month, the girl's something of a chameleon.

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Round-eyed girl-next-door one moment and boyish waif the next; heavy metal vixen at one turn, Hollywood glamour girl at another. And she achieves these multiple looks without having to do a whole lot. In short, her sex appeal steals a good stripper's game in that she can be whomever you want her to be. Unfortunately for those interested, Zooey Deschanel married Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard in September 2009, though on November 1, it was announced that they were divorcing.

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Zooey Deschanel will necessarily face scrutiny because she was born into a family with well-established Hollywood connections, the kind that open the doors that so many hundreds of thousands of hopefuls find impossible to open. Granted, she had to prove herself once those doors opened, and that's a battle of its own, but the doors themselves are the hardest part.

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Regardless, Zooey Deschanel has put together an impressive Hollywood resume, one that speaks to what she wants to do, not what she needs to do, and includes TV work as well as over two dozen films. She's costarred with Kate Hudson, Jennifer Aniston, Will Ferrell, Jim Carrey, Katie Holmes, and Mark Wahlberg, to name a few, and she's been the critical darling on more than a couple occasions, notably in All the Real Girls (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) and (500) Days of Summer (2009).

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But Zooey Deschanel not just a movie star. Zooey Deschanel also plays keyboards, percussion, banjo, and ukulele, and has sung in several of her films. Zooey Deschanel teamed up with singer-songwriter M. Ward to release her debut album Volume One (recorded with M. Ward under the moniker She & Him), which was released in March 2008. The follow-up album Volume Two was released in the U.S. in March 2010.

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Zooey Deschanel was born into a Hollywood family at the dawn of the 1980s. Her mother is Twin Peaks actress Mary Jo Zooey Deschanel and her father is Oscar-nominated cinematographer Caleb Zooey Deschanel (her older sister Emily stars on TV's Bones). The self-described "high school theater type" went to Santa Monica's Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences with future film stars Kate Hudson and Jake Gyllenhaal. On graduating, she attended Northwestern University but dropped out after a year.