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Emmanuelle Grey "Emmy" Rossum is
an American actress and singer-songwriter. She has starred in movies
including Songcatcher, An American Rhapsody, and Passionada. Her role in
Mystic River garnered her wider recognition.
Born: September 12, 1986, New York City, New York, United States
Height: 1.73 m
Spouse: Justin Siegel (m. 2008–2010)
Nominations: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Musical or Comedy Film, More
It would seem that 2004, the year of her 18th birthday, will be
remembered as pivotal for Emmy Rossum due to her appearance in two very
different films, The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and The Phantom of the
Opera (2004). Emmy's performance in the latter film gained her a Golden
Globe nomination, and should assure that she will be a memorable
presence in many films to come.
Being born and raised in New York City provided Emmy with the perfect
place to start her professional career. After passing an audition at the
Metropolitan Opera when she was 7 years old, she performed in more than
20 operas in six different languages at Lincoln Center, alongside such
figures as Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. She was directed by
Franco Zeffirelli in "Carmen." She left the opera when she entered her
teenage years, as she had grown too tall to perform as a child. Emmy
also appeared in a Carnegie Hall presentation of "The Damnation of
Faust." She graduated from the Spence School, a private institution in
Manhattan, in 1996 and then earned a high school diploma when 15 years
old by taking online extension courses offered by Stanford University
(Education Program for Gifted Youth). She later enrolled at Columbia
University and studied art history and French.
In a change of venue, Emmy created the role of Abigail Williams in the
daytime soap opera "As the World Turns" (1956) in 1997 and branched out
in performances in the made-for-television movies Genius (1999) (TV) and
The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000) (TV), in which she played the title
character as a young teenager. Other television work included "Snoops"
(1999), "Law & Order" (1990), and "The Practice" (1997).
Emmy made her theatrical feature debut in the indie film Songcatcher
(2000), with her good friend Rhoda Griffis, which won the Special Jury
Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance at the Sundance Film Festival
in January 2000. Rossum received an Independent Spirit Award nomination
in the category of Best Debut Performance for her performance as an
Appalachian orphan. She played an aspiring songwriter (the title
character) in the romantic comedy Nola (2003). Cast as the ill-fated
daughter of a small-business owner in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River
(2003), she projected an aura of innocence that made her character's
tragic death memorable and heartbreaking. This was her first major
studio film.
After six months of filming her role as the fresh-faced but highly
intelligent teenage damsel in distress The Day After Tomorrow (2004) in
Montreal, she returned to New York and screen-tested for the role of
Christine in The Phantom of the Opera (2004) in full costume and makeup,
and was finally selected for the part by Andrew Lloyd Webber after
singing for him at his home. Although she was surprised to be chosen
ahead of many better-known and older actresses considered for the part,
the combination of her vulnerable, fragile beauty and fine, classically
trained singing voice ultimately proved that she was perfectly cast. In
preparation for the role, she took ballet classes for two months and
started polishing her singing. Emmy has commented that, in her approach
to acting, she draws heavily upon her own experiences, so she visited
locations in Paris and conjured up what she terms "past memories" to
draw upon in making her performance emotionally realistic. She stood on
the roof of the Opéra Garnier, where Christine sings "All I Ask of You,"
and went underneath the opera house, where there is actually a gloomy,
dark lake. She studied Degas's paintings of ballerinas in the Musée
d'Orsay to learn how to stand like one.
Her next project Poseidon (2006) was a mainstream effort but since its
release she has been more true to advice she obtained from Sean Penn
when making Mystic River (2003) that she should be picky and only accept
roles that are fun to do such as Dragonball: Evolution (2009).
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