Zooey Deschanel shares her first headshots and resume from when she was just 16: ‘Just call my dad’s office number and my mom will drive me to the audition’

Zooey Deschanel is making some memories, sharing her very first portraits and auditions from when she was just 16 years old.

The 44-year-old grew up in show business, the daughter of cinematographer/director Caleb Deschanel and actress Mary Jo Deschanel.

She took to Instagram on Tuesday, sharing her first-ever black-and-white portraits and her resume as a 16-year-old high school actress.

The actress captioned the snaps: “First portraits and resumes.” Just call my father’s office number and my mother will drive me to the audition.

The first photo showed a smiling teenager, Zooey, in a black top, while the second showed her in a black hat with a floral print jacket.

A third snap featured the same outfit from a wider angle while the fourth also showed a wider angle of her in the black top.

Her fifth and final image revealed her resume, which began with the actress being “in the eleventh grade at Crossroads School in Santa Monica.”

The actress attended this school with a few classmates who would also become famous, like Jake Gyllenhaal and Kate Hudson.

Her resume read: “Last spring, she played Doria Hudson in a production of Smile, performed at Crossroads School.”

The resume added that her other productions at the school included Our Town, Little Women, The Importance Of Being Earnest, Man of La Mancha, Annie, Street Scene and The Mikado.

He added that she studied in a Shakespeare program in England in 1995 and had a band called Saffron.

The final lines of the resume reveal that she “toured Godspell in Northern California and played The Acid Queen in a production of Tommy in New York.”

While Deschanel was studying at Northwestern University, she dropped out after just nine months to pursue her acting career.

She made her television debut in Veronica’s Closet in 1998 and her film debut in Mumford in 1999.

After appearing in The Offspring’s music video for She’s Got Issues, she made her breakthrough as rebellious sister Anita Miller in 2000’s Almost Famous.

She followed with roles in The Good Girl, Abandon, Big Trouble, The New Guy, Elf, Eulogy, The Bridge to Terabithia and (500) Days of Summer.

Then, in 2010, she made her breakthrough on the small screen in Fox’s The New Girl, which ran for seven seasons from 2011 to 2018.