It took little time for actress-singer Zooey Deschanel – a petite and enigmatic beauty – to gain a devoted audience. Taking up acting as a teenager in the late 1990s and moving into highly-monitored prestige projects such as “Almost Famous” (2000) and “All the Real Girls” (2003), Deschanel’s off-beat projections of character made her cast-worthy before the Christmas comedy, “Elf” (2003), did the trick. Over the next few years, Deschanel found her niche as a reliable supporting presence in both mainstream and independent works of comedy, drama and fantasy, before getting a shot headlining them
The indie actress/musician wed her rocker beau near Seattle, Wash. over the weekend. Her new husband, Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard, is from Bellingham, Wash.
What do you get when you combine the style of Catherine Deneuve, the glamour of Brigitte Bardot and the musical talents of Francoise Hardy? Zooey Deschanel of course! The singer and starlet soon to be seen in Yes Man evokes all
Zooey Deschanel is engaged to Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard. The 32-year-old indie rocker proposed to Deschanel, 28, just before the holidays. It will be the first marriage for both.
It's an accepted truth that as far as movie characters go, the pixieish young woman who changes the leading man's life is way overused. But if your movie must contain such a creature, Zooey Deschanel is absolutely your best