| Emmanuelle Grey "Emmy" Rossum is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress and singer. She is probably most well known for her leading roles in the films The Day After Tomorrow and the 2004 version of The Phantom of the Opera. Rossum appeared in a number of productions as a child in the 80-strong 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 made-for-television biopic The Audrey Hepburn Story, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt (2000). Rossum had never seen the stage version of The Phantom of the Opera prior to filming and at the direction of the composer and director waited to see it until after filming had been completed. She studied Degas' paintings of ballerinas in the Musee d'Orsay to learn how to stand like one for her role in the film. After the film was released, Rossum was offered to make a classical music album by several companies, but declined, deciding instead to record an album of contemporary music, on which she has recently begun production. Rossum describes the album as "pop music... but not bubblegum" Rossum also says that the lyrics are coming from her personal journals and diaries... which she thinks makes it more relatable to people. Rossum's latest role is in Poseidon, a high-budget disaster film. The film opened on May 12, 2006 to mixed reviews and flopped at the box office. Rossum has expressed a desire to choose a "smaller" and "more intimate" film for her next project. During the summer of 2006, she appeared as Juliet in a Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Romeo and Juliet. Rossum lives with her mother in Manhattan. She dated David Wildenstein, a member of the French billionaire art-dealing Wildenstein family, from 2004 to 2005, but they have since broken up. Rossum has said that she would not date other celebrities, and prefers to keep her personal life away from the media spotlight, wishing to "fly under the radar" by living in her native New York City. Emmy has recently become a youth ambassador for Youth AIDS. Emmy has Coeliac disease, an auto-immune disease where the body has an intolerance to all foods containing gluten and any wheat.
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