Hannah Simone | New Girl

Hannah Simone was born on August 3, 1980, in London, to an Indian father and a German, Italian, and Greek Cypriot mother. She has one brother named Zack. She moved to Vancouver when she studied at the University of British Columbia. She returned to Hounslow, United Kingdom, for a year after finishing her first degree, where she served as a human rights and refugees officer.

For her career, Simone became the first season host of HGTV Canada’s television program Space for Living after graduating from Ryerson University in 2005.
She then worked at MuchMusic Headquarters as a VJ, as a television presenter for Much News Weekly, and as the host of the program The NewMusic. Simone got her big break when she played Cece, the best friend of the lead character Jess, who was played by Zooey Deschanel, on Fox’s comedy New Girl from 2011 to 2018. She was also cast as the leading lady in ABC’s revival of The Greatest American Hero on February 12, 2018, but unfortunately, the show was not picked up.