She performed onstage with the likes of Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti in the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, and has sung in a Carnegie Hall presentation of The Damnation of Faust. After an international search for talent, she was chosen for her lyric soprano voice and excellent acting to play the young opera singer who becomes the object of the phantom's obsession.īorn and raised in New York City, Emmy Rossum showed musical talent at an early age and at seven, joined the Metropolitan Opera's Children's Chorus. She will soon begin production on the Joel Schumacher-directed THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. She has completed filming the Roland Emmerich eco-disaster film THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW opposite Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. She also recently portrayed Audrey Hepburn in the ABC original movie "Audrey".Įmmy will next be seen in a supporting role opposite Sean Penn in the Clint Eastwood directed MYSTIC RIVER. Emmy's performance earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for "Best Debut Performance". Emmy made her big screen debut at the age of thirteen, as the Appalachian orphan in the film SONGCATCHER, which won the Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Ensemble Performance at the Sundance Film Festival. Over the course of five years, she sang in five different languages in over twenty different operas, including La Boheme, Turandot and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Among her credits are "American Rhapsody," "It Had to Be You" and "The Audrey Hepburn Story." She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performance for her work in the 1999 film, "Songcatcher."Įmmy Rossum began her theatrical career at the Metropolitan Opera. She has appeared in more than a dozen theatrical and TV movies and TV shows. As she matured, she grew out of children’s costumes at the Metropolitan Opera and decided to pursue acting. She grew up in Manhattan and started singing at the Metropolitan Opera at age 6. Emmanuelle Grey Rossum was born on September 12th, 1986 in New York.
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