1. Emmanuelle Grey Rossum was born on September 12,1986 and is an American actress and singer-songwriter.
45 Facts About Emmy Rossum
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Emmy Rossum starred in the 2004 sci-fi film The Day After Tomorrow, and received critical acclaim for her performance in the leading role of Christine Daae in the film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera.
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Emmy Rossum acted in the films Poseidon, Dragonball: Evolution, Inside, Beautiful Creatures, Comet, You're Not You, and Cold Pursuit.
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Emmy Rossum released a Christmas EP the same year, titled Carol of the Bells.
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Emmanuelle Grey Emmy Rossum was born on September 12,1986, in New York City.
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Emmy Rossum is the only child of Cheryl Rossum, a single mother who worked as a corporate photographer.
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Emmy Rossum's parents separated while her mother was pregnant, and as of 2007, she had met her father only twice.
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Emmy Rossum's mother is of Russian Jewish descent, and her father is Protestant of English and Dutch ancestry.
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Emmy Rossum identifies as Jewish and has stated that her mother instilled in her the "Jewish code of ethics and morals".
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Emmy Rossum was named for her maternal great-grandfather, whose first name was Emanuel, using the feminine spelling.
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Emmy Rossum worked under the direction of Franco Zeffirelli in Carmen.
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Emmy Rossum attended the Spence School, a private school in Manhattan, before dropping out to pursue career opportunities.
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Emmy Rossum received her high school diploma at fifteen years old via online-extension courses offered by Stanford University's Education Program for Gifted Youth.
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Emmy Rossum then enrolled at Columbia University, studying French, art history and philosophy.
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Emmy Rossum had a guest role as Caroline Beels in Snoops.
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Emmy Rossum was nominated for a Young Artist Award in 1999 for Best Performance in a TV movie for her work in the Disney Channel Original Movie Genius.
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Emmy Rossum then portrayed a young Audrey Hepburn in the ABC television film The Audrey Hepburn Story.
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Emmy Rossum made her film debut at 13, in 2000's Songcatcher, as Deladis Slocumb, an Appalachian orphan.
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In Nola, Emmy Rossum played the title character, an aspiring songwriter.
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Emmy Rossum had a breakthrough role as Laura Chapman in the sci-fi-disaster film The Day After Tomorrow.
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Emmy Rossum later returned to New York, where she was the last to audition, in full costume and make-up, for the role of Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera, the onscreen adaptation of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of the same name.
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Emmy Rossum received a Critics' Choice Award for Best Young Actress, along with a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor.
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In 2006, Emmy Rossum appeared in Poseidon, Wolfgang Petersen's remake of the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure.
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Emmy Rossum played Jennifer Ramsey, the daughter of Kurt Russell's character.
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Emmy Rossum described the character as being proactive and strong in all situations, rather than a damsel in distress.
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Emmy Rossum appeared as Juliet Capulet in a 2006 Williamstown Theatre Festival production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
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In early 2009, Emmy Rossum appeared in the poorly received Dragonball Evolution.
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Emmy Rossum's next big screen venture was the indie Dare, which was an official selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
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In November 2009, Emmy Rossum appeared in Broadway's 24 Hour Plays in which actors, writers, and directors collaborate to produce, and perform six one-act plays within 24 hours to benefit the Urban Arts Partnership.
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Emmy Rossum appeared in Warren Leight's "Daily Bread", directed by Lucie Tiberghien.
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In December 2009, Emmy Rossum joined the cast of the Showtime dramedy series Shameless, based on the British series of the same title.
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The series has received consistent acclaim, with Emmy Rossum's performance being universally praised.
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Emmy Rossum starred in the drama You're Not You as Bec, an inexperienced caregiver who looks after and befriends Kate, who suffers from the degenerative disease ALS.
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Emmy Rossum explained it by feeling frustrated because of the lack of "emotional honesty" in music played in radios.
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In December 2007, Emmy Rossum released three Christmas songs on the EP Carol of the Bells.
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Emmy Rossum performed at the Hollywood Christmas Celebration at the Grove in Los Angeles and the Lighting of the Great Tree in Atlanta, Georgia.
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In 2010, Emmy Rossum sang a song called "Cruel One" on singer Alex Band's debut solo album We've All Been There.
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Unlike Inside Out on which Emmy Rossum wrote the songs herself, the album is a collection of covers of songs from the 1920s to 1960s.
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Emmy Rossum describes herself as a lyric soprano, while saying her voice is still developing.
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Emmy Rossum continues to train vocally at ZajacStudio, a studio run by soprano Joann C Zajac.
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In 2015, Emmy Rossum campaigned with the Best Friends Animal Society to encourage animal adoption.
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On May 26,2009, Emmy Rossum attended a march in West Hollywood California protesting the California Supreme Court's ruling to uphold Proposition 8.
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In February 2024, Emmy Rossum was one of 400 celebrities who signed an open letter by Creative Community for Peace denouncing attempts to remove Israel from Eurovision 2024 amid the Gaza war.
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Emmy Rossum married Justin Siegel in February 2008, although they publicly presented themselves as in an unmarried relationship.
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Emmy Rossum has coeliac disease and predominantly hyperactive ADHD, and has been on medication for the latter since childhood.