MISC:
- Her real name is Emmanuelle Grey
Rossum.
- She was born in New York City in
September 12, 1986.
- Her father is a banker and her
mother is a corporate photographer.
- Has celiac disease, an autoimmune
disease in which the body can't tolerate any foods containing gluten or wheat.
- Rossum married music executive
Justin Siegel in February 2008. They filed for divorce on September 2009.
- One of her best friends are actress Leighton
Meester from Gossip Girl and singer/actress Ashlee Simpson.
- Her favorite
actors are Sean Penn (her Mystic River (2003)
co-star) and Miranda Richardson (her The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
co-star).
- Her hobbies
include reading, horseback riding, and ballet.
- Her favorite
book is John Steinbeck's
"Of Mice and Men".
- Her favorite
designer is Ralph Lauren.
- She is a fan
of Audrey Hepburn.
- Studied acting
with Flo Salant Greenberg of the Actor's Workshop in New York City for several
years.
- She was
named after her grandfather, whose first name was Emanuel, using the feminine
spelling Emmanuelle.[4]
- She is
the niece of Vera Wang,
to whom she is related by marriage.
- Her
mother is Jewish and her father is Protestant.
- Her
parents divorced before she was born.
- She was
raised by her mother and only met her father twice while growing up.
- Always kisses
someone at least once
- Dies or has a
near death experience in each film
- Took cooking
classes at Le Cordon Bleu in London.
- She attended
the Spence School in Manhattan, an elite private girls' school that was also
attended by Gwyneth Paltrow and Kerry Washington.
- She graduated
from high school at 15 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.
MUSIC CAREER:
- She is a singer-songwriter.
- She
passed her first audition at the Metropolitan Opera when she was 7 years old,
upon singing "Happy Birthday" in all 12 keys.
- She performed in more than 20 operas in six different languages.
- She performed alongside such figures as Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti.
- She left the
opera when she entered her teenage years, as she had grown too tall to perform
as a child.
- After six months of filming her role in The Day After Tomorrow (2004),
she 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.
- Her performance in
the The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
gained her a Golden Globe nomination.
- She describes herself as a lyric soprano, though she admits her voice is still developing.[30]
- She describes herself as a lyric soprano, though she admits her voice is still developing.[30]
- She
joined Counting
Crows, Augustana,
and Michael
Franti & Spearhead as a
"special guest" for select performances of the "Traveling Circus
and Medicine Show" tour in the summer of 2009.
- In 2007,
she released her debut album, Inside Out.
ACTING:
- Rossum's television debut was in 1997, making a guest appearance on Law & Order.
- Her first major
studio film was in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River
(2003).
- Sean Penn told her when making Mystic River (2003) that she should be picky and only accept roles that are fun to do.
- Sean Penn told her when making Mystic River (2003) that she should be picky and only accept roles that are fun to do.
- She had never seen the stage version of The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
prior to filming the screen version.
- In preparation
for her role in The Phantom of the
Opera (2004), she attended a séance at the Spiritualist
Association of Great Britain, where a medium talked to her about her late
grandmother.
- She won Best
Young Actress in 2004 Critic's Choice Awards
- She said that
her best act was in Genius (1999)
(TV)
CHARITY
WORK:
- Rossum is
a YouthAIDS ambassador.
- She is
also the official spokesperson for "PiNKiTUDE" - a campaign to help
raise breast
cancer awareness.
- She has
appeared in several Public Service Announcements for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Action Fund.
- She also
works with Global
Green USA to raise money for
environmental protection and awareness of ecological issues.
- 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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