Emmy Rossum

 Emmy's role in the film The Day After Tomorrow (2004) earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe. Emmy's performance in the latter film gained her a Golden Globe nomination.Emmanuelle Grey Rossum was born in New York City, where she was raised by her single mother, Cheryl Rossum, a corporate photographer (she has only met her father a few times). Her mother is of Russian Jewish descent and her father is of English and Dutch ancestry. Rossum, who was 7 years old at the time she auditioned at the Metropolitan Opera, performed more than 20 operas at Lincoln Center in six languages along with Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. Franco Zeffirelli directed her in "Carmen." Because she was too tall to perform in the opera as a child, she left the opera after she reached her teens. Emmy also performed in an Carnegie Hall presentation of "The Damnation of Faust." Emmy graduated from Manhattan's Spence School in 1996. She then received a high school diploma at the age of 15 when she enrolled in online extension courses offered by Stanford University (Education Programme for Gifted Youth).