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Hannah Simone (born 3 August 1980) is a British-Canadian actress, television host, and former VJ and fashion model. She is known for portraying Cece on the Fox sitcom New Girl.[1]

Hannah Simone
Simone in March 2012
Born	(1980-08-03) 3 August 1980 (age 42) London, United Kingdom
Occupation	Actress, model, television hostess, VJ
Years active	2005–present
Spouse	Jesse Giddings ​ (m. 2016)​
Children	1

Early life

Simone was born in London to an Indian father and an English mother of German, Italian, and Greek Cypriot descent.[2] She has a brother named Zack.[3] Simone spent her early childhood in Calgary. From ages 7–10, Simone moved through three continents, attending schools in each one. At the age of 13, Simone was living in Cyprus and was working as a fashion model. At 16 years old, Simone lived in New Delhi where she attended the American Embassy School. A year later, at 17, she returned to Canada. Initially settling in White Rock, British Columbia, she subsequently relocated to Vancouver[4] where she attended the University of British Columbia. After her first degree, she returned to Hounslow, United Kingdom for a year, where she worked as a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations.[5]

Career

Following her 2005 graduation from The Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Simone became host of HGTV Canada's television show Space for Living for its first season.[6]

Simone worked at MuchMusic as a VJ at MuchMusic Headquarters, as a news presenter for "Much News Weekly" and, the host of the show The NewMusic. From May 2006 to November 2008, she worked as a VJ for MuchMusic in Canada. She related well to youth interested in alternative artists and interviewed many artists and bands during her time at Much. Simone stopped working at MuchMusic on 21 November 2008, stating that she had plans to move to Los Angeles, California.[7]

Simone earned a role hosting WCG Ultimate Gamer alongside Joel Gourdin on Syfy.[8][9] The series premiered on 10 March 2009 and ended after its second season on 7 October 2010. From 2011 to 2018, Simone was on Fox's comedy New Girl, where she played Cece, the best friend to title character Jess (Zooey Deschanel).[10]

Alongside Kate Upton and Génesis Rodríguez, she was featured in Gillette's "What Women Want" campaign in 2013.[11]

In 2014, she starred alongside Danny Trejo in Train's music video "Angel in Blue Jeans".[12]

In 2016, she starred in music video "Same Air" from The Rocket Summer. In 2017, she hosted the reality competition television series Kicking & Screaming.[13]

On 12 February 2018, Simone was announced as the lead in ABC's reboot of The Greatest American Hero;[14] however, ABC declined to pick up the series.[15]

She began cohosting Welcome to Our Show, a New Girl rewatch podcast with co-stars Lamorne Morris and Zooey Deschanel, distributed by IHeartRadio, in January 2022.[16]

Personal life

In 2016, after dating for nearly four years, Simone married musician Jesse Giddings.[17] Simone announced her pregnancy in April 2017, and she gave birth to their son in early August 2017.[18][19]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Sati Shaves Her Head	Nikki	Short film
2013	Oldboy	Stephanie Lee
2015	Miss India America	Sonia Nielson
2015	Lemonade	Tasha
2016	Flock of Dudes	Beth
2016	Folk Hero & Funny Guy	Emily
2016	Odd Squad: The Movie	Weird Emily
2017	Band Aid	Grace
2017	Killing Gunther	Sanaa

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Kevin Hill	Larissa	Episode: "Only Sixteen"
2005	Kojak	Sexy Girl	2 episodes
2006	Beautiful People	Customer Fix Café	Episode: "A Tale of Two Parties"
2009–2010	WCG Ultimate Gamer	Host	2 seasons[20]
2011–2018	New Girl	Cece	Starring role; 7 seasons Teen Choice Awards Choice TV Breakout Performance — Female
2012	H+: The Digital Series	Leena Param	Web series
2013	1600 Penn	Princess Abigail of Andorra	Episode: "Bursting the Bubble"
2013	So You Think You Can Dance	Herself/Guest judge	Episode: "Las Vegas Callbacks"
2013	Hot Package	Model	Episode: "Pilot"
2017	Kicking & Screaming	Host
2018	Single Parents	Dr. Monica Dewan	3 episodes
2019	Weird City	Phephanie	Episode: "Chonathan & Mulia & Barsley & Phephanie"
2019	The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience	Amber	TV special
2020 - 2022	Mira, Royal Detective	Pinky (voice)	Main cast

Other media

List of acting appearances in music videos

Year	Title and Artist	Role	Refs
2014	"Angel in Blue Jeans" by Train	Title character	[12]
2016	"Same Air" by The Rocket Summer	Free Falling Girl	[21]

References

External links

• Hannah Simone on Twitter
• Hannah Simone at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Hannah Simone

Hannah Simone (* 3. August 1980 in London, England) ist eine kanadische Schauspielerin und früheres Model.

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- [en] Hannah Simone

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[ru] Симон, Ханна

Ха́нна Симо́н (англ. Hannah Simone, род. 3 августа 1980, Лондон) — канадская актриса. Наиболее известна по роли Сиси Парех в ситкоме «Новенькая»[4].

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