She did indeed. In one of her earlier acting roles, Emily Deschanel portrayed a young psychic named Pam Asbury in the film.

Horror master Stephen King has an affinity for psychics in his stories, and "Rose Red" was no different. In it Asbury is one of a team of people with paranormal abilities put together by a university professor to examine a supposedly haunted house. Asbury's ability is called psychometry, or token-object reading, which allows one to obtain information about a person by touching an object that belongs to that person.

"Rose Red" took shape as a two-part miniseries that premiered on ABC in 2002. The script was written by King and marks one of the few King films conceived as a film first, rather than a book or short story adapted to film.

It was one of Deschanel's early roles, but not her earliest. Her very first acting gig was on the big screen, in the 1994 film "It Could Happen to You." It was a very small role in a film that her father, Oscar-nominated cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, worked on. Her role is listed as "Paint-Throwing Fur Activist," which is fitting as she's an animal-rights activist and vegan in real life.

Her next major role came in the 2001 telefilm "The Heart Department" and was a major step up the ladder (her character had a name this time), which led to "Rose Red."

She had roles in a couple of major motion pictures after that - 2003's "Cold Mountain" and 2004's "The Alamo" and "Spider-Man 2" - before landing the "Bones" role in 2005, which has kept her quite busy since.

And screen acumen is clearly somewhere in the Deschanel blood, as another of Caleb's children, Zooey, has found a little fame in the biz. Star of such big-screen hits as "Elf" (2003) and, most recently, "(500) Days of Summer," Zooey recently popped by her big sister's office to do a guest spot on "Bones."