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Zooey Deschanel has snagged the part of Janis Joplin in an upcoming biopic, beating tabloid favorites Linsday Lohan and Britney Spears, and Woody Allen muse Scarlett Johansson for the part. Deschanel, who has had major roles in films like Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous, as well as The Good Girl and Elf, will portray the late icon in director Penelope Spheeris' The Gospel According to Janis, which starts filming in Philadelphia in November. While Pink was the initial first choice of director Spheeris', the singer pulled out, claiming the film's producers made the casting process "some circus pop contest -- who's the 'it' girl who wants to play Janis," according to IMDb.com.
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Zooey Deschanel isn't exactly the kind of woman that most guys would go gaga over. Sexiness doesn't ooze out of her every pore, but she brings back memories of those girls who were mostly ignored in high school, only to resurface after summer break with a hot new look that made guys start to take notice.
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Zooey Claire Deschanel (born January 17, 1980) is an American actress and singer. Deschanel made her film debut in 1999's Mumford and soon became known for memorable, deadpan supporting roles in films such as Almost Famous (2000), Big Trouble (2002) and The Good Girl (2002). She then began playing female leads, in All the Real Girls (2003), Elf (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), and Tin Man in 2007.
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It took little time for actress-singer Zooey Deschanel – a petite and enigmatic beauty of black hair, pale complexion and deep blue eyes – 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 herself.
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Zooey Deschanel and Jake Gyllenhaal will host Sundance. The ''Good Girl'' costars will hand out prizes at the indie film festival on Jan. 24 in a ceremony broadcast live on the Sundance Channel
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In 2004, Deschanel ... starred in Eulogy, and as Trillian in the film adaptation of Douglas Adams' science fiction novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). Deschanel then played Sarah Jessica Parker's neurotic roommate in Failure to Launch (2006), and appeared on four episodes of the Showtime television series Weeds from 2006 to 2007, playing Andy Botwin's quirky ex-girlfriend, Kat. 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.[8] Deschanel planned to sing all of Joplin's songs, and took four months of singing lessons "to approximate Joplin's gritty vocals."[8] The film, scheduled to begin shooting on November 13, 2006,[8] was postponed indefinitely.
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