Emily Deschanel

• Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
• Birthday: October 11, 1976

Despite her Hollywood pedigree, actress Emily Deschanel toiled in thankless small roles and walk-on feature parts before finally making a name for herself. Though her dad, Caleb Deschanel, was a renowned cinematographer whose stunning work on “The Right Stuff” (1983) and “The Natural” (1984) earned him Academy Award nominations, Deschanel had won her celebrity the hard way by the time she played the surly, sharp-tongued forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan on “Bones” (Fox, 2005 -). Even then, career stability was not ass…more