Zooey Deschanel Photos
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Zooey Claire Deschanel (born January 17, 1980) is an American actress. Deschanel was born in Los Angeles, California, and brought up in various international locations because of her father's work. She is the daughter of Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Caleb Deschanel and actress Mary Jo Weir; her sister, Emily Deschanel, is also an actress. Her paternal grandfather was French hence her typical French last name (meaning "from the channels" or "from the little jugs" depending of the patronymists; it is from the Ain region) and the remainder of her ancestry is Irish. Her sister revealed in a recent French interview that when they were little they spent lots of summers near Lyon, France where they still have family. The name "Zooey" was inspired by the male character of the same name in J. D. Salinger's novel Franny and Zooey.