Why we love Hannah Simone
Have you seen Zooey Deschanel's TV vehicle New Girl? If you're like us – in between laughing at the wacky banter and admiring Zooey – you'll have briefly been knocked speechless by the appearance of Zooey's friend CeCe, a beautiful model, who pops up from time to time. 'Who is this woman,' you ask, frantically, 'and how do I find out more about her?' That woman's name is Hannah Simone and you can find out more about her here. You're welcome.
Hannah Simone boasts an impressively broad cocktail of ancestry – born in London to an Indian father and a half German-Italian, half Greek-Cypriot mother, she spent her childhood moving between Canada, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, and New Delhi. She's been to more schools than most school inspectors, but she still managed to do well enough to get into two different Universities and earn BAs both in International Relations and Political Science AND Radio and Television Arts.
We're feeling kind of outdone – we barely have one degree, we can't even act, and we look at best passable in a dress. We feel especially outdone as the reason she took the second degree was so she could learn how to make documentaries about the injustices she found in the first. She's like a modern-day Ghandi, but, y'know, less wrinkled.
Even though Hannah Simone's still involved in activism, awareness campaigns and charity, we can be thankful that she ended up in front of the camera, rather than behind it. That Radio and Television Arts degree was put to good use, as she worked as a presenter and producer at MuchMusic, Canada's answer to MTV. Well, Canada's answer to what MTV used to be, rather than the cavalcade of spiteful reality shows that it kicks out now.
Since then, Hannah Simone's shot to fame in the states by hosting a gaming reality show, acting in a few things, and generally being both a) incredibly attractive and b) blisteringly intelligent. So good work all round, there, Hannah.
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