Hannah Simone Biography

Hannah Simone (born August 3, 1980) is a British-Canadian television hostess, actress, and former fashion model. From May 2006 to November 2008, she worked as a VJ for MuchMusic in Canada, and is best known for portraying Cece Parekh on the Fox sitcom New Girl.

Early life

Simone was born in London, to an Indian father and an English mother of German, Italian, and Greek Cypriot descent. She has a brother named Zach. Simone spent her early childhood in Calgary, Alberta. 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, India, where she attended the American Embassy School. A year later, at 17, she returned to Canada. Initially settling at White Rock, British Columbia, she subsequently relocated to Vancouver where she attended the University of British Columbia. After her first degree, she worked as a human rights and refugees officer at the United Nations in England for a year.

Career

Following her 2005 graduation from Ryerson University, Simone became host of HGTV Canada's television show Space for Living for its first season.

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. 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 November 21, 2008, stating that she had plans to move to Los Angeles, California.

Simone earned a role hosting WCG Ultimate Gamer alongside Joel Gourdin on Syfy. The series premiered on March 10, 2009 and ended after its second season on October 7, 2010. Simone currently stars on Fox's comedy New Girl alongside Zooey Deschanel.

Alongside Kate Upton and Gnesis Rodrguez, she was featured in Gillette"?s "What Women Want"? campaign in 2013.

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

In 2016, she starred in music video "Same Air" from The Rocket Summer.

Personal life

Hannah has stated that her background as an interviewer has taught her the pitfalls of sharing too much about her private life. She continues to be passionate about human rights work.

Filmography

Film

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

Television

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Kevin Hill	Larissa	Episode: "Only Sixteen"
2005	Kojak	Sexy Girl	2 episodes
2006	Beautiful People	Customer Fix Caf	Episode: "A Tale of Two Parties"
2009-2010	WCG Ultimate Gamer	Herself/Host	8 episodes
2011-present	New Girl	Cecilia "Cece" Parekh	Series regular Teen Choice Awards Choice TV Breakout Performance "? Female
2012	'	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 and Screaming"	Host

Other media

List of acting appearances in other media

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	"Angel in Blue Jeans" music video	Title character	Train video; first role in a music video