Zooey Deschanel

• Name : Zooey Claire Deschanel
  
• Born : January 17, 1980
  
• She was named after Zooey Glass, the male protagonist of J.D Salinger's 1961 novella Franzy and Zooey
  
• Deschanel lived in Los Angeles, but spent much of her childhood traveling because her father shot films on location
  
• "I'm really happy now that I had the experience, but at the time I was just so miserable to have to leave my friends in Los Angeles and go to places where they didn't have any food I liked or things I was used to."
  
• She attended Crossroads, a private preparatory school in Santa Monica, California, where she befriended future co-stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Kate Hudson.