Emmy Rossum

Emmy Rossum

Date of Birth
12 September 1986, New York City, New York, USA

Height
5' 6?" (1.69 m)

Mini Biography
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 Op?ra 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 Mus?e 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).

**jimaroon** · 13th September 2009, 08:29

Out and about @ SoHo - Sept 12

**kaneda** · 13th September 2009, 16:59

CB · 17th September 2009, 12:28

Emmy Rossum attends the US WEEKLY Names The 25 Most Stylish New Yorkers of 2009 on September 16, 2009, New York City, New York, USA

**~~Aekhyron~~** · 17th September 2009, 12:34

Lovely!

**kaneda** · 18th September 2009, 13:34

Eating her lunch outside the Apple store in New York City (September 12)

**kaneda** · 23rd September 2009, 16:07

**Kenji** · 23rd September 2009, 18:59

Wow, just look at those legs

**kaneda** · 30th September 2009, 16:00

Attends a National Parks celebration hosted by the National Parks Conservation Association and PBS at Central Park on September 23, 2009 in New York City.

**jimaroon** · 30th September 2009, 16:44

@ Sunset Medical Tower in Los Angeles, Sept 29

**kaneda** · 1st October 2009, 02:00

Shopping at Dior and Juicy Couture in Beverly Hills (September 29)

CB · 8th October 2009, 17:54

NEW YORK - OCTOBER 07: Actress Emmy Rossum attends the American Ballet Theatre 2009 Fall Gala at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center on October 7, 2009 in New York City.

**kaneda** · 9th October 2009, 19:58

Actress Emmy Rossum arrives at the grand opening of the W Washington D.C. on October 8, 2009 in Washington, DC.

**sing** · 9th October 2009, 21:22

Lovely, I don't think she look that good in boots, thank you.

CB · 10th October 2009, 12:24

EAST HAMPTON, NY - OCTOBER 09: Actress Emmy Rossum a screening of "Dare" as part of the 17th annual Hamptons International Film Festival at the United Artists Regal Cinema on October 9, 2009 in East Hampton, New York.

CB · 10th October 2009, 13:20

EAST HAMPTON, NY - OCTOBER 09: Actress Emmy Rossum attends the 17th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival's Breakthrough Performers Panel at Regal Bay on October 9, 2009 in East Hampton, New York.

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