Emmy Rossum
Emmy Rossum
Emmanuelle Grey "Emmy" Rossum is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her acting as Fiona Gallagher in the television series Shameless. Rossum has starred in movies including Songcatcher, An American Rhapsody,and Passionada. Her role in Mystic Rivergarnered her wider recognition. She starred in the science-fiction film The Day After Tomorrowand received critical acclaim for her performance in the leading role of Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera. She has since starred in Poseidon, Dragonball:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth12 September 1986
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.
I think acting is a job where you're always unemployed. You're always looking for the next job, so I assume that it's like other jobs that are with that same kind of setup.
I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.
I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.
When I talked to Joel about it I said that the one important thing for me was that she is the one real centre in all this theatricality.
I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.
Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.
If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!
There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'
I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.
I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.
People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.
I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though, and this is more a hybrid of pop and classical music.
A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and...play.