Fresh Look Celebrity Zooey Deschanel Hairstyles (04)

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Zooey Deschanel is almost famous. After minor debuts on TV and the big screen, Zooey Deschanel landed a plum role in the Cameron Crowe film Almost Famous. In this classic coming-of-age film about a young kid named William writing for Rolling Stone, Zooey Deschanel played Anita, the rebel flight attendant and William's sister who prophesied to her brother early in the film, "One day, you'll be cool." The role set the tone for Zooey Deschanel's film career, that of the pale-skinned indie princess who can leave some guys spellbound.

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Zooey Deschanel is typecast. Following Almost Famous, Zooey Deschanel began putting together an impressive Hollywood resume, loaded with critical or commercial hits (i.e., 2002's The Good Girl with Jennifer Aniston, All the Real Girls, Elf with Will Ferrell, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), but she soon felt she was being typecast as the main character's neurotic best friend (like in the dismal Failure to Launch). It was a development she disliked and has actively shunned -- a move that has contributed to her appeal among her uniquely devoted fanbase.

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Zooey Deschanel on the small screen. Zooey Deschanel made her Hollywood debut in a 1998 episode of Veronica's Closet, and she has on occasion found her way back to TV. In addition to a one-off on Frasier, she's voiced roles on American Dad and The Simpsons, and she had a recurring role on HBO's hit series Weeds. But most significantly, in 2007, she starred in the multiple-Emmy-nominated Tin Man, a miniseries framed as a continuation of the L. Frank Baum novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel.

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Zooey Deschanel shows off her vocal chops. After having been a closet singer-songwriter for much of her life, in 2001, Zooey Deschanel formed a jazz cabaret act with actress Samantha Shelton called If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies. Then, in 2006, she and musician M. Ward formed She & Him, a two-person band that has, to date, issued the well-received debut record Volume One on Merge Records in 2008, featuring her singularly beautiful vocals, and the two have tentatively scheduled to release its follow-up, Volume Two, in 2010. In addition to singing on soundtracks, Zooey Deschanel has also contributed her vocals to a couple of tracks for Coconut Records, actor Jason Schwartzman's band.

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Zooey Deschanel days of summer. In the summer of 2009, Zooey Deschanel appeared in director Marc Webb's (500) Days of Summer with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, an extraordinary film that received sterling reviews. "Romantic comedies are usually about when love works," she told GQ in August 2009 while discussing (500) Days of Summer. "This is about when it doesn't."

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Zooey Deschanel in your highness. Zooey Deschanel proved that she has the sex appeal to rival costar Natalie Portman when she starred in the medieval fantasy comedy Your Highness, written by (and also starring) Danny McBride (Pineapple Express, Eastbound & Down).

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Zooey Deschanel in The New Girl. Zooey Deschanel moved back to the small screen in the fall of 2011, starring in the new Fox sitcom The New Girl. The story unfolds around Zooey Deschanel's character, Jess, a goofy, cute girl who moves into an apartment with three male roommates. It's one of the few shows are girlfriends love that we can stand to sit through, to be honest.

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Zooey Deschanel and husband Ben Gibbard separate. In early November 2011, Zooey Deschanel publicist announced an amicable divorce between the couple, who had been married for two years. Ben Gibbard, 35, is the frontman for the indie rock band Death Cab For Cutie.

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Zooey Deschanel wore a pink strapless Monique Lhullier gown that looked like a middle America bridesmaid, or a Mall-of-American pageant winner, or the queen of a bubble gum factory (yah that’s right, bubble gum factory). C’mon! Where is your plunging back and 6-foot train!? But then again, this is Zooey Deschanel who is supposed to be “quirky” or something…or at least that’s what hot guys have been telling me