Emmy Rossum
Emmanuelle Gray Rossum, also known as Emmy Rossum, is an American actress, singer, and director. Emmy Rossum's appearances in The Day of Terror (2004) and The Phantom of the Opera (2004), two very different movies, make it seem as though 2004-the year of her 18th birthday-will go down in history as a turning point for her. Emmy received a Golden Globe nomination for her work in the latter picture.
Emmy Rossum was born in New York City and was raised there by her single mother, corporate photographer Cheryl Rossum (she has only sometimes seen her father). Her father is of English and Dutch lineage, while her mother is a Russian Jew. Rossum appeared in more than 20 operas in six different languages at Lincoln Center with artists like Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo after acing a Metropolitan Opera audition when she was just seven years old. Franco Zeffirelli directed her in "Carmen." She stopped performing at the opera when she was a teenager because she had gotten too tall to do so.
She was now too tall to perform as a youngster and was in her adolescent years. Emmy also participated in a performance of "The Damnation of Faust" at Carnegie Hall. She received her high school certificate at the age of 15 by enrolling in Stanford University's Education Program for Gifted Youth's online extension classes after graduating from the elite Spence School in Manhattan in 1996. Later, she enrolled at Columbia University to study French and art history.
Born: 1986
Year active: 1993
Awards:
- National Board of Review (2004)
- Saturn Awards (2005)
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards (2005)
- Young Artist Awards (2005)
- Hamptons International Film Festival (2009)
- Savannah Film Festival (2009)
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