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
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.
Sometimes I vocalize in the car. It's a good way to multitask. Although fellow drivers on the road think I'm craaaazy.
I love to create and I love to be challenged and I love to do things that are scary, so I think I would probably think about jumping off a bridge if somebody told me that's going to make that shot real great. I'd be like, "Okay, here we go, let's do it." Like, yeah.
I always think I could do better. I always think that something could be more perfect, but I think that that's just within my nature. I think I want to please a director, I want to give my everything and find every which way I could have burrowed further into a character.
I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.
I think of Gisele Bundchen to get myself on the treadmill
I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.
I think I kind of came out of the womb singing. I think I was, like, born at the hospital, and, you know, popped out, and was singing. ... I'm not sure really how it happened. I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing, or banging a beat on the dinner table.
Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.
I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.
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!