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In early 2009, Rossum appeared in a poorly received Dragonball Evolution. Rossum also appeared as Juliet Capulet in a 2006 Williamstown Theatre Festival production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Rossum described the character as being proactive and strong in all situations, rather than a damsel in distress. She played Jennifer Ramsey, the daughter of Kurt Russell's character. In 2006, Rossum appeared in Poseidon, Wolfgang Petersen's remake of the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure. She also received a Critics' Choice Award for Best Young Actress, along with a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor. For her performance, Rossum received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical or comedy. After having nearly missed the audition due to a family engagement, Rossum was asked to audition in person for Webber at his home in New York.

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She later returned to New York, where she was the last to audition, in full costume and make-up, for the role of Christine DaaГ© in The Phantom of the Opera (2004), the onscreen adaptation of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of the same name. Rossum had a breakthrough role as Laura Chapman in the Roland Emmerich eco-disaster film The Day After Tomorrow (2004). In her first major studio film, Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Rossum starred as Katie Markum, the ill-fated daughter of small-business owner Jimmy Markum, played by Sean Penn. In Nola (2003), Rossum played the title character, an aspiring songwriter. Variety magazine named Rossum as 'One of the Ten to Watch' in 2000. For her role, Rossum received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performance and also had the opportunity to sing a duet with Dolly Parton on the Songcatcher soundtrack.

Debuting at the Sundance Film Festival, the film won the Special Jury Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance. Rossum made her film debut at 13, in 2000's Songcatcher, as Deladis Slocumb, an Appalachian orphan. She then portrayed a young Audrey Hepburn in the ABC television film The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000).

#Emmy rossum phantom of the opera movie#

Rossum was nominated for a Young Artist Award in 1999 for Best Performance in a TV movie for her work in the made-for-TV movie Genius. She also had a guest role as Caroline Beels in Snoops. Rossum's television debut was in August 1997, as the original Abigail Williams in the daytime soap opera As the World Turns. She received her high school diploma at fifteen years old via online-extension courses offered by Stanford University's Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY). Rossum attended the Spence School, a private school in Manhattan, for years, before dropping out to pursue career opportunities. She also has worked with acting coach Terry Knickerbocker. An increasing interest in pursuing acting led to taking classes with Flo Salant Greenberg of The New Actors Workshop in New York City.

She also worked under the direction of Franco Zeffirelli in Carmen. For anywhere from $5 to 10 a night, Rossum sang in six languages in 20 operas, including La bohГЁme, Turandot, a Carnegie Hall presentation of La damnation de Faust, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Over the course of five years, she sang onstage with the chorus and had the chance to perform with singers such as PlГЎcido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. Upon singing ' Happy Birthday' in all 12 keys, Rossum was welcomed to join the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus by chorus director Elena Doria at age seven. She is a relative, by marriage, of designer Vera Wang, who was married to Rossum's cousin, investor and real-estate developer Arthur P. She was named for her great-grandfather, whose first name was Emanuel, using the feminine spelling.

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Rossum identifies as Jewish, and has stated that her mother instilled in her the 'Jewish code of ethics and morals'. Rossum's mother is Jewish (of Russian-Jewish descent), whereas her father is Protestant (of English and Dutch ancestry). Her parents separated while her mother was pregnant, and as of 2007, she had met her father twice. She is the only child of Cheryl Rossum, a single mother who worked as a corporate photographer. Emmanuelle Grey Rossum was born on September 12, 1986, in New York City.