Hannah Simone Featured in "Audrey" Magazine
Posted by
Lauren on June 01, 2012
As the perennial new girl, Hannah Simone has a couple of tricks to get people to warm up to her quickly. The first is a hug, which she warmly doled out right as she arrived to our photo shoot bright and early one Friday morning. It was a solid hug, one that gave off the impression that this girl is comfortable with people. Another is her wit. "My family moved countries every three or four years," Simone remembers, "so I had to find the fastest way to make friends. And there's no better way in middle school and high school to endear people to you than to make them laugh." Hence, the 31-year-old of Indian (on her dad's side) and German-Italian- Greek-Cypriot (on her mother's side) descent was a regular member of local theater clubs in all the different countries she lived in, from London to Saudi Arabia, India to Greece.
Simone's theater skills helped her land her current role as the scene- stealing BFF to Zooey Deschanel's Jess in the FOX freshman hit comedy, New Girl. However, the journey that led Simone there was a long and winding one. "Everybody asks me how I got into the industry and I literally fell backwards into it," Simone says with a throaty laugh. "I don't really understand it."
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