The Phantom of the Opera Biography

• Emmy Rossum Biography (Christine, "The Phantom of the Opera")
• From Rachel Thomas,
  Your Guide to TV / Movies for Teens.
• Birthday: September 12, 1986
  Hails From: New York, New York
  Recent Movies: The Day After Tomorrow
  Mystic River
• Biography:
  EMMY ROSSUM began her theatrical career at the age of seven when she was chosen to join the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center as a member of the Children’s Chorus.
• She was trained there in stagecraft and classical vocal technique in order to sing the children’s parts in the company’s regular performances. During the next five years, Rossum appeared in twenty different operas, singing in five languages. She worked alongside the world’s greatest opera singers, among them Placido Domingo, Denyce Graves, Angela Gheorghui and Dimitri Hvorostovsky. In 1995, she sang in the first Metropolitan Opera production of Tschaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, directed by Elijah Moshinsky.
• The film screened in dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Special Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Ensemble Performance. Rossum’s voice, singing in a Scotch-Irish ballad style, was featured in the film. Her acting performance earned her an Independent Spirit Award in the category of “Best Debut Performance.” After seeing an early cut of the film, Dolly Parton was inspired to write a mother-daughter duet which she recorded with Rossum. That duet, “When Love is New,” was released on the Songcatcher soundtrack CD.
• Recognizing her unique talents, Variety Magazine named her “One of the Ten to Watch” in the year 2000. Rossum can be seen starring opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid in the action movie The Day After Tomorrow, directed by Roland Emmerich. Rossum was also seen in a supporting role opposite Sean Penn, Lawrence Fishburne, Kevin Bacon, and Tim Robbins, in the Clint Eastwood-directed drama Mystic River.
• Rossum was born in New York City in 1986 and attended the Spence School until 1996 when she began to homeschool through private tuition and by enrolling in programs offered by Stanford University’s Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) and Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development (CTD).