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Zooey Deschanel (Jessica Day)

Who's that girl? It's Zooey Deschanel, a.k.a. Jessica Day. Before her time as Apartment 4D's "adorkable" roommate, the actress stacked up an impressive filmography.

She played the love interest of comedy legends Will Ferrell in Elf (2003), Jim Carrey in Yes Man (2008) and starred alongside Mark Wahlberg in the apocalyptic thriller The Happening (2008). The following year, Deschanel's character in 500 Days of Summer (2009) broke our hearts right along with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's.

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Deschanel doesn't just act, she sings, too. When she wasn't bursting into song as Jess, she was releasing her own music. In 2008, she teamed up with musician M. Ward to release their debut album, Volume One, under the name She & Him.

Since then, the duo has released six more LPs. They also wrote music for the 2011 animated movie Winnie The Pooh, and their song "So Long" was nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the Grammys. And don't forget about the iconic New Girl theme that she wrote and pe

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