Not so long ago, the small world of movies and soap operas regularly saw actresses playing the timeless roles of sparkling women who were always positive and well anchored in pop culture. Ideal, fantastic and sassy women. In 2007, film critic Nathan Rabin coined a word to describe this archetypal character: Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

If this term, in the opinion of its author, refers to a narrative device aimed at the psychological evolution of the main character, originally describing Kirsten Dunst’s character in Elizabethtown, this expression has been wrongly generalized to many characters or even real people. Like actress Zooey Deschanel.

The real “It Girl” in the mid-2000s-2010s, known for her roles in Almost Famous, The Phenomenon, Elf, H2G2: A Traveler’s Guide to the Galaxy, the pretty indie comedy-drama (500) Days Together, and of course , the highly successful series New Girl, starring Zooey Deschanel. However, after completion A new girl In 2018, after seven seasons, her acting career slowed down significantly.

Ball’s son

Born into a family of artists (father, Caleb Deschanel, is a director of photography, and mother, Mary Jo Deschanel, notably distinguished herself as an actress in Twin Peaks), Zooey Deschanel began her career in 1998 in the series Les Below. De Veronica and received her first role on the big screen in Mumford (1999). He then dropped out of university to pursue acting.

His score entered almost famous (2000) exposed it to the general public, and Zooey Deschanel’s fame then spread. In the 2000s, he could be seen opposite Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal in Good Girl (2002), a crazy sci-fi film. H2G2: The Galactic Traveler’s Guide (2005), in the romantic comedy Playboy to seize (2006) or in the masterpiece The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford in 2007.

An excellent musician, the talent of a singer allowed him to get roles Elf (2003) and in the Disney film Once Upon a Mattress (2005). She became a recurring character on the Weeds series and finally rose to fame in 2008 when M. Night Shyamalan cast her as the female lead in his Phenomenon, in which she played Mark Wahlberg’s wife.

Here’s the trailer again for fun…

A new girl, puts him in orbit

In 2011, she headlined New Girl as Jessica Day, a naïve and crazy young woman, but unhappy in love after her boyfriend cheated on her and then left her. She thus shares her joys and sorrows with three boys in her roommate: Nick, the bartender; Schmidt, a white-collar worker who thinks he’s Casanova; and Winston, a former basketball player.

Nominated for a 2012 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, her series has been a smash hit for Fox. In 2012, Zooey Deschanel was also ranked 8th on the list of the 20 highest-paid actresses on American television, with an annual salary of $9 million.

At the same time, he knows real success with his musical group he and she. Her debut album, Volume One, sold over 300,000 copies in the United States. After six albums (the latest, a tribute to Brian Wilson, was released last year), the band is still going on tour.

Zooey Deschanel in music, what does it give? A little snippet…

Mother of two children, born in 2015 and 2017 respectively, the actress said in 2018 that she was in no rush to get back in front of the cameras, preferring to focus on her role as a mother. A very worthy choice.

Jack-of-all-trades, Zooey Deschanel is a jack of all trades. He lent his voice to animated films (Les Trolls and its sequels), presented a web series devoted to vegan and vegetarian food (“Your Food Roots”); The website was launched in 2011. Hello GigglesPresented as a “A positive online community for female-identified female readers, providing the latest in beauty and style, relationships, career and money, culture, identity and more…” Sold in 2015 for official money, no notices, but It is estimated at about 30 million dollarsHe keeps an eye on his creations.

And, like many of his colleagues, he also launched a podcast called Welcome to our show. Accompanying the series’ two headliners are Hannah Simone and Lamorne Morris A new girl, he returns to this very one in anecdotes. To date, there are about 60 episodes. If you’re nostalgic for Jessica Day, you know what to do!