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Emmanuelle Grey Rossum, popularly known as Emmy Rossum (born September 12, 1986) is an American actress and singer.

Biography

Early life

Rossum was born in New York City to a Jewish American family; her father is a banker and her mother is a corporate photographer. At age seven, she joined the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus, where she found herself in the company of many fellow students from elite private schools.

Rossum was enrolled at the prestigious all-girl Spence School in Manhattan until administrators upset with her frequent absences delivered an ultimatum - forego all career opportunities in order to concentrate on schoolwork, or withdraw. She opted for the latter, and recently graduated from high school after completing "virtual classes" sponsored online by Stanford University. She left the school to pursue an acting career.

Career

Rossum appeared in a number of productions as a child in the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus, including Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades and the acclaimed Franco Zeffirelli-directed Carmen. She has sung with performers as diverse as tenor Plácido Domingo and country singer Dolly Parton.

Her television appearances include Law & Order (1997), As the World Turns (1999), and The Practice (2001). She also portrayed the teenage Audrey Hepburn in the TV biopic The Audrey Hepburn Story
starring Jennifer Love Hewitt (2000).

Rossum's films include Songcatcher
and It Had to Be You (both in 2000), Mystic River (film)
(2003), and The Day After Tomorrow
and The Phantom of the Opera (in which she was given the role of Christine Daae, co-starring beside Gerard Butler and Patrick Wilson.), both in 2004. Rossum had never seen the stage version of Phantom of the Opera prior to filming. She studied Degas' paintings of ballerinas in the Musee d'Orsay to learn how to stand like one for her role in The Phantom of the Opera.

Personal life

Rossum lives with her mother in the New York City house where she was born. She dated David Wildenstein (2004-2005), a member of the French billionaire art-dealing Wildenstein family, but they have since broken up.

Rossum has decided not to attend college but has enrolled in some extension courses offered at Columbia University. She has already completed a course in art history, being inspired by her study of Degas in Paris.

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Actors - Emmy Rossum

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