Emmanuelle Grey "Emmy" Rossum (born September 12, 1986) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, lyricist, and singer. She is probably most well known for her leading roles in the films The Day After Tomorrow, Poseidon and The Phantom of the Opera.
Rossum was born in New York City, New York — her mother, Sheryl, a corporate photographer and her father a banker. Rossum's family is Jewish, and her parents divorced when her mother was pregnant and she was raised by her mother, having only met her father twice. Her song "Anymore" from her album Inside Out, is based on this experience.
At the age of seven, the choir director at Emmy’s school discovered that she had perfect intonation, which led to an audition at the prestigious Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.[citation needed] Upon singing "Happy Birthday" in 12 different keys, Emmy was welcomed by the director, Elena Doria as a member of the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus. Over the course of five years, Emmy sang onstage, and, along with the many other members of the chorus, with the likes of such opera greats as Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. For $5 a night (there was once a horse on stage with her who got $150 a night), Emmy sang in five different languages, in 20 different operas such as La Boheme, Turandot, a Carnegie Hall presentation of The Damnation of Faust and A Midsummer Night's Dream. among others, and worked under the direction of Franco Zeffirelli in Carmen.
By age twelve, Emmy had grown too tall for the children’s costumes, and an increasing interest in pursuing acting led to her getting an agent, and subsequent auditions for many acting roles.
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