She was excited that Geffen had enough confidence to encourage her, as a first-time artist, to find a direction that she was at home with – even if that meant trying things slightly out of the box. Working with producer Stuart Brawley, whose producing and engineering credits include Brandy, *NSYNC, Nick Lachey and Celine Dion, Rossum co-wrote every song on Inside Out. Rossum promises she’ll get back to acting soon – her last film was 2006’s Poseidon – but these days, she is completely focused on her music. Rossum broke through to major studio films when she played Sean Penn’s murdered daughter in Clint Eastwood’s acclaimed Mystic River and was later featured in the summer disaster thriller The Day After Tomorrow, which came out just months before Phantom made her a bona fide star.

This role earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performance and gave her the chance to sing a duet with Dolly Parton.

After being nominated for a Young Artist Award in 1999 for her work in the TV movie Genius, she went on to play the young Audrey Hepburn in The Audrey Hepburn Story and made her big screen debut in 2000’s indie film Songcatcher. While Phantom, which earned $150 million worldwide and showcased her powerful operatic voice in addition to her impressive acting skills, is the vehicle that made Rossum a star, longtime fans remember her in a wide variety of roles since she starred in the soap opera As The World Turns at age 13. Within the week, it was #8 on the Top Album chart and #2 among pop albums. An EP of three songs from the project, including its first single ‘Slow Me Down’ and an 15-minute ‘making of’ documentary, was posted on iTunes July 31 and became an immediate hit. Best known for her Golden Globe-nominated role as Christine Daae in the 2004 movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Phantom of the Opera, 21-year-old Emmy Rossum put her thriving acting career on hold this past year to write and record her debut album Inside Out, which will be released in October on Geffen Records.

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