She is married to Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard; the two separated in November 2011. She is of French (from her paternal grandfather) and Irish descent. Deschanel appeared in a guest role on the television series Veronica’s Closet before making her film debut in Lawrence Kasdan’s 1999 comedy Mumford, and later in the year she appeared (non-singing) in the music video for The Offspring’s single “She’s Got Issues”. Deschanel objected to her typecasting, arguing, “A lot of these roles are just a formula idea of somebody’s best friend, and it’s like, I don’t even have that many friends. in September 2006, Variety announced that Deschanel would play 1960s singer Janis Joplin in the film The Gospel According to Janis, to be co-written and directed by Penelope Spheeris.
Zooey Deschanel Critcises LA Times Blogger Zooey Deschanel has taken aim at a Los Angeles Times blogger, who took a quote she made at the Duke & Duchess Of Cambridge’s Los Angeles gala on S… [link]




