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Emily Deschanel played Dr. Temperance Brennan in Season Three's "Dead Men Tell No Tales", the latter half of the Bones/Sleepy Hollow crossover that aired on October 29, 2015. Emily is the older sister of actress Zooey Deschanel, who is best known as the star of the Fox sitcom, New Girl. She has played Temperance "Bones" Brennan on the Fox series, Bones, since 2005.
History[]
Deschanel was born in Los Angeles, California, to cinematographer and director Caleb Deschanel and actress Mary Jo Deschanel (née Weir). Her younger sister is actress and singer-songwriter Zooey Deschanel.[1] Her paternal grandfather was French, from Oullins, Rhône; her roots also include Swiss, Dutch, English, Irish, and other French ancestry.[2][3] Deschanel attended Harvard-Westlake and Crossroads School in Los Angeles[4] before graduating from Boston University's Professional Actors Training Program with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater.[5]
In 1994, Deschanel made her feature film debut in It Could Happen to You. Her next notable role was in Stephen King's Rose Red in 2002. Then she appeared in Cold Mountain, The Alamo, and Glory Road and was named one of "six actresses to watch" by Interview Magazine in 2004. In 2005, Deschanel won the role of Dr. Temperance Brennan with David Boreanaz as FBI agent Seeley Booth on the Fox crime procedural comedy-drama Bones, based on the novels and the career of forensic anthropologist and author Kathy Reichs that premiered on September 13, 2005. For her performance, she received a 2006 Satellite Award nomination and a 2007 Teen Choice Award nomination. Deschanel and Boreanaz served as co-producers at the start of the show's third season, before becoming producers in the middle of the show's fourth season. Deschanel, with Alyson Hannigan, Jaime King, Minka Kelly, and Katharine McPhee made a video slumber party featured on FunnyorDie.com to promote regular breast cancer screenings for the organization Stand Up 2 Cancer.[6] In recent years, her passion for animal welfare has led her to providing the narration for My Child Is a Monkey and serving as an associate producer on the documentary film How I Became an Elephant.[7] Deschanel ranked number 72 in The 2012 Hot 100 on AfterEllen.[8]
Filmography[]
| Year | Series | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | It Could Happen to You | Animal rights activist | |
| 2000 | It's a Shame About Ray | Maggie | Short film |
| 2003 | Easy | Laura Harris | |
| 2003 | Cold Mountain | Mrs. Morgan | |
| 2004 | The Alamo | Rosanna Travis | |
| 2004 | Spider-Man 2 | Receptionist | |
| 2004 | Old Tricks | Woman | Short film |
| 2005 | Boogeyman | Kate Houghton | |
| 2005 | Mute | Claire | Short film |
| 2005 | That Night | Annie | Short film |
| 2006 | Glory Road | Mary Haskins | |
| 2007 | The Diagnosis | Maggie | Short film |
| 2009 | My Sister's Keeper | Dr. Farquad | |
| 2011 | The Perfect Family | Shannon Cleary | |
| 2014 | Unity | Narrator | Documentary |
| TBA | Continue | Janet Tex | |
| TBA | The Rescuers | Madame Medusa |
| Year | Series | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | The Heart Department | Maude Allyn | |
| 2002 | Rose Red | Pam Asbury | TV mini-series |
| 2002 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Cassie Germaine | Episode: "Surveillance" Season 3 Episode 17 |
| 2002 | Providence | Annie Franks | Episodes: "Cloak & Dagger" and "The Eleventh Hour" |
| 2003 | The Dan Show | Sam | |
| 2004 | Crossing Jordan | Michelle | Episode: "All the News Fit to Print" |
| 2005–present | Bones | Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan | Lead role, also producer, 234 episodes |
| 2009 | Tit for Tat | Emily | |
| 2010–11 | The Cleveland Show | Julia Roberts (voice) Herself (voice) |
Episodes: "Cleveland Live!", "Hot Cocoa Bang Bang" |
| 2012 | American Dad! | Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan | Episode: "Less Money, Mo' Problems" |
| 2014 | Drunk History | Babe Didrikson Zaharias, pro golfer/LPGA founder | Episode: "Sports Heroes" |
| 2015 | Sleepy Hollow | Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan | Episode: "Dead Men Tell No Tales" |
| 2016 | BoJack Horseman | Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan | Episode: "Love And/Or Marriage" |
Appearances[]
| Season Three | |||||||||||||||||||
| "I, Witness" | "Whispers in the Dark" | "Blood and Fear" | "The Sisters Mills" | "Dead Men Tell No Tales" | |||||||||||||||
| "This Red Lady from Caribee" | "The Art of War" | "Novus Ordo Seclorum" | "One Life" | "Incident At Stone Manor" | |||||||||||||||
| "Kindred Spirits" | "Sins of the Father" | "Dark Mirror" | "Into the Wild" | "Incommunicado" | |||||||||||||||
| "Dawn's Early Light" | "Delaware" | "Ragnarok" | |||||||||||||||||
References[]
- ↑ http://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/emily-deschannel-talks-to-womens-health
- ↑ http://genealogy.about.com/b/2011/11/01/ancestors-emily-deschanel.htm
- ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/print/2003/feb/16/entertainment/ca-olsen16
- ↑ http://www.thedailytruffle.com/los-angeles-natives/
- ↑ http://www.tv.com/people/emily-deschanel/biography/
- ↑ http://www.tvguide.com/News/Deschanel-Hannigan-Cop-1010367.aspx
- ↑ http://www.howibecameanelephant.com/film-crew/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120815140251/http://www.afterellen.com:80/2012-hot-100