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Full Emmy Rossum Biography
Emmanuelle Grey "Emmy" Rossum (born September 12, 1986) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress and singer. She is probably most well known for her leading roles in the films The Day After Tomorrow and the 2004 version of The Phantom of the Opera.
Rossum was born in New York City, New York to a Jewish family — her mother, Sheryl, a corporate photographer and her father a banker. Rossum's parents divorced when her mother was pregnant and she was raised by her mother, having only met her father twice.
By age twelve, Emmy had grown too tall for the children’s costumes, and an increasing interest in pursuing acting led to her getting an agent, and subsequent auditions for many acting roles.
The year 1997 saw Rossum's television debut with a guest appearance on Law & Order as Alison Martin. A recurring role as the original Abigail Williams, in the long-running daytime soap As the World Turns was soon to follow (1999), as were several other minor roles in two movies and mini-series. Rossum was nominated for a Young Artist Award nomination in 1999 for Best Performance in a TV Movie for her work in the made-for-tv movie Genius, followed by roles such as the young Audrey Hepburn in the ABC TV movie The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000).
In Nola (2003), Rossum played the title character, an aspiring songwriter; in her first major studio film, Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River, Rossum stars as Katie Markum, the ill-fated daughter of small-business owner Jimmy Markum, played by Sean Penn. As Katie, Rossum is said to have "projected an aura of innocence that made her character's tragic death memorable and heartbreaking".
Following Mystic River, Rossum played protagonist Laura Chapman in the Roland Emmerich eco-disaster film The Day After Tomorrow opposite Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. After returning to New York, Rossum was the last to audition, in full costume and make-up for the coveted role of Christine Daaé in the screen adaptation of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s world-famous and longest running musical The Phantom of the Opera (2004). After an international search for talent, and having nearly missed the audition on account of a family engagement, a sixteen year-old Rossum was asked to audition in person for Lloyd Webber at his home in New York. Webber felt she proved her ability to play the young opera singer who becomes the object of the phantom's obsessive love opposite Broadway singer Patrick Wilson as Raoul and actor Gerard Butler as The Phantom. For her role as Christine Daaé, Rossum received a Golden Globe nomination and many other awards.
In an interview with USA Today, Emmy revealed that she has already signed on to do three films in 2008. However It has not been revealed what these films are.
Among other projects, Rossum recorded an audio book called Our Only May Amelia by author Jennifer L. Holm. It was released in May 2000, produced by the Random House Audio Publishing Group.
She cites Dolly Parton, Madonna, Cher, and Barbra Streisand as some of her influences, among others. Rossum offers that "I was inspired to cut this album because I'm so frustrated listening to the radio these days. There is so little emotional honesty.” Her own songs are reflective of her inner thoughts, often about relationships and “getting hurt, wanting the other person back, not wanting to be the first person to go back.”
The entire album is currently available. The album, produced by Stuart Brawley, is titled Inside Out and was released into stores on October 23, 2007. Clips of her album are available on her Myspace page. For the promotion of the album, Hollywood Records also feature her album's single, Slow Me Down, as part of the second volume of Girl Next compilation album, due on July 10, 2007.
Although she was born in New York, Emmy currently splits her time between the apartment she shares with her mother in Manhattan and Los Angeles, CA, where she is working on her album for Geffen Records.
Rossum suffers from celiac disease, an auto-immune disorder marked by the body’s intolerance of food containing gluten.
Rossum began dating art scion David Wildenstein of the French billionaire art-dealing family in 2004. Unfortunately, although Rossum considered him to be “a great guy: really smart, a gentleman,” she was in L.A. all the time, while he continued to reside in New York, causing the relationship to end in 2006. In 2007, she dated actor Topher Grace and Chris Evans. Rossum, who has been credited with her clean lifestyle and strategic ability to avoid tabloids and paparazzi, suggests that she would never date other celebrities for the sake of maintaining her positive image. Preferring to keep her personal life out of the media spotlight—a task made easier by living in her native New York—Rossum believes she is of no interest to the media as she is not “sleeping around or falling down drunk” and she is determined "not to get caught dancing on tables."
Rossum was inspired by her Poseidon co-star Josh Lucas's work with YouthAIDS, and became a YouthAIDS ambassador. She is currently dating record producer Justin Siegel. |
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