Emily Deschanel

Emily married American actor, screenwriter and producer, David Hornsby, on September 25, 2010. The couple is blessed with two sons, Henry Lamar Hornsby, born on September 21, 2011, and Calvin, born on June 8, 2015.

She is a vegan and a dedicated advocate of animal rights causes. She has provided narration in the documentary ‘My Child Is a Monkey’ and remained an associate producer of yet another titled ‘How I Became an Elephant’.

In pursuit of promoting regular screening of breast cancer for the charitable program ‘Stand Up 2 Cancer’, she along with Katharine McPhee, Minka Kelly, Jaime King and Alyson Hannigan developed a video slumber party that featured on FunnyorDie.com.

Emily was born on October 11, 1976, in Los Angeles, California, US, in an upper middle class family to Caleb Deschanel and Mary Jo Deschanel (née Weir).

Both her parents are associated with the world of film and television. Her father is a film cinematographer and film and TV director while her mother is an actress who has made her mark in both films and TV.

Her younger sister, Zooey Deschanel, is also a renowned American actress and singer-songwriter.

Deschanel comes from a mixed ancestry of French, Irish, Dutch, Swiss and English descent.

She studied at the independent co-educational university preparatory day school, the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California, and also at the Crossroads School, a private, K-12 independent, college preparatory school located in Santa Monica, California.

Her debut in feature films happened with the Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda starrer 1994 American romantic comedy-drama film ‘It Could Happen to You’. Deschanel played the role of an animal right activist in the film.

In 2000, she featured as Maggie in the short film titled ‘It's a Shame About Ray’ and the year that followed saw her essaying the role of Maude Allyn in the television movie ‘The Heart Department’.

She then played Pam Asbury, a lecturer and host of Psychic TV in the Stephen King scripted TV miniseries ‘Red Rose’. She appeared in three of its episodes in 2002.

In 2002, she also portrayed as Cassie Germaine in the American police procedural, legal, crime-drama TV series ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ in the seventeenth episode of its third season titled ‘Surveillance’; and as Annie Franks in the drama series ‘Providence’ in two of its episodes titled ‘Cloak & Dagger’ and ‘The Eleventh Hour’

She played Laura Harris in Jane Weinstock’s directorial debut ‘Easy’ in 2003. Side-by-side, she featured as Sam in the TV movie ‘The Dan Show’ that released same year.