# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zooey-deschanel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:03:32.422Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zooey-deschanel"
name: "Zooey Deschanel"
slug: "zooey-deschanel"
description: "Zooey Claire Deschanel is an American actress and singer. She made her film debut in Mumford (1999) and had a supporting role in Cameron Crowe's film Almost Famous (2000). Deschanel is known for her deadpan roles in comedy films such as The Good Girl (2002), The New Guy (2002), Elf (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Failure to Launch (2006), Yes Man (2008), 500 Days of Summer (2009), and Our Idiot Brother (2011). She has also ventured into dramatic film territory with Manic (2001), All the Real Girls (2003), Winter Passing (2005), Bridge to Terabithia (2007), The Happening (2008), and The Driftless Area (2015). From 2011 to 2018, she starred as Jessica Day on the Fox sitcom New Girl, for which she received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards."
tagline: "American actress and singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zooey_Deschanel_-_Song_Sung_Blue.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1980-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           31.527996
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  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump