"When I was real young, I wanted to be 1,000 different things. In acting, I get to do that every six weeks." - Emmy Rossum

Emmanuelle Grey Rossum, better known as Emmy Rossum, (born September 12, 1986) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress and a singer-songwriter.

Emmy Rossum was born in New York City, New York, an only child of Sheryl, a corporate photographer and a banker. She had her performance debut at Manhattan's grand Metropolitan Opera at age 6.

Emmy Rossum was raised an opera singer, and she was a damn good one. With 20 productions in six different languages to her credit, she performed with two of the Three Tenors in New York's majestic music halls.

At 13 she moved on to daytime television, with a regular role on the soap opera As the World Turns. Her candor onscreen didn't go unnoticed, and she was soon starring and playing supporting roles in TV movies, such as Grace & Glorie (1998), Genius (1999) and The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000).

Soon enough she was on the big screen, playing the country-crooning orphan Deladis in 2000's Songcatcher. It was only Hollywood for Emmy from this point on, as she took on work in movies like An American Rhapsody, Happy Now, Passionada, and Nola.

She is probably most well known for her leading roles in the films The Day After Tomorrow, Poseidon and The Phantom of the Opera.

Emmy was inspired by her Poseidon co-star Josh Lucas's work with YouthAIDS, and became a YouthAIDS ambassador. Rossum is currently dating record producer Justin Siegel, who is the son of Ned Siegel, the United States ambassador to the Bahamas.

Emmy suffers from celiac disease, an auto-immune disorder marked by the body's intolerance of food containing gluten.

Emmy Rossum is hard to describe as sexy. She's strikingly beautiful, but simply doesn't present herself in an overtly sexy way. And she hardly needs to; she's got plenty going for her already.