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The 2015 CDG Awards will take place on Feb. 17 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

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Emmy Rossum out and about in West Hollywood (December 12, 2014)

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Emmy Rossum leaving a late night workout (November 26, 2014)

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Emmy Rossum leaving Nine Zero One Salon (November 25, 2014)

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Emmy Rossum arriving at LAX (November 22, 2014)

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On an upcoming episode of "The Doctors," publicist to the stars Nanci Ryder is sharing the story of her struggles with ALS. The disease made headlines earlier this year with the famous ice bucket challenges, which helped spread awareness of ALS and raise money for research. "Extra" has a clip from the episode in which Nanci, with the help of actress Emmy Rossum, describes her heartbreaking battle with ALS.

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New Shameless Season 5 Promo

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Emmy Rossum on why it was important for her to be at today's event, why this is a topic we need to continue to shed a light on, if she's seen their facilities at The Rape Foundation's Annual Brunch At Greenacres in Los Angeles, CA

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One could understand if Hilary Swank resents Emmy Rossum, her co-star in the new film “You’re Not You,” opening Friday.

That’s because during filming, Swank had to restrict her diet to show herself wasting away ­— while Rossum had the opposite challenge: eating all she could to add muscle for the task of having to lift a dying woman.

“There was a lot of bonding while I was stuffing my face with chocolate chip cookies and she was fasting on green juices,” says Rossum, 28, who plays Bec, an unqualified caretaker to Swank’s Kate, an ALS patient. “I’m glad the shoe wasn’t on the other foot, because I can get really hangry.”

Part of the challenge of playing Bec was the physical intimacy she has to develop with Swank. During one of their first scenes together, Bec has to help Kate in the shower, even holding the naked woman. 

“Intensely emotional” is Rossum’s specialty of late. As one of the stars of the gritty, darkly humorous Showtime series “Shameless,” she plays a poverty-stricken young woman struggling to build a life for herself and her abandoned younger siblings even as she makes breathtaking mistakes. This past season, the show’s fourth, found her character imprisoned for accidentally exposing her baby brother to cocaine. The role requires a naked performance from Rossum — sometimes emotionally, sometimes literally.

But she wasn’t always so willing to expose herself.

It wasn’t publicly known that Rossum, then 21, had married record executive Justin Siegel in 2008 until he filed for divorce 18 months later. She has said that they rushed into it. “Honestly, I was so young, I don’t think I knew what marriage meant,” the actress recently told Cosmopolitan. “My parents were never married, and I was teased in school and called a bastard.”

Rossum was raised in New York City by her mom, a photographer who split up with her father before Emmy was born. The actress came to show business as a vocal prodigy in the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus, performing with legends Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti before hitting her teens. She cops to being “the princessy girl who sang a lot” in her early, often precious acting roles, including the 2004 film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera,” alongside Gerard Butler. 

Nowadays, Rossum lives in Los Angeles ­— where the paparazzi snap her daily goings-on — but still regularly crashes at her mother’s place on the Upper East Side, the land where photographers don’t bother to tread.

“I walk out of my mom’s apartment, where I sleep on the couch, and it’s normal life,” she says. “There’s no paparazzi because not enough cool people live there. I eat my sandwich at EJ’s [Luncheonette], and nobody cares.”

The tabloids, however, are curious about her dating life — and she’s no longer hiding her relationships. After her divorce, Rossum dated singer Adam Duritz and her “Shameless” co-star Tyler Jacob Moore.

She met her current boyfriend (“a nice guy,” she says), Sam Esmail, when he directed her in the upcoming film “Comet.” A time-jumping love story with a dark edge, it gives Rossum another chance to overhaul her former goody-goody image. And that suits her just fine.

“When I was a kid, People would ask, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ And I would say a nurse, lawyer, astronaut, chef, the president,” she says. “A person can’t do that in one lifetime, but as an actor, you can dabble in a little bit of everything.”

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Emmy Rossum, 28, may not be ready for kids, but she does have some maternal instincts. "I adopted a cat from Chicago that was living under the porch where the Gallagher house from Shameless is," she says of her hit Showtime series.

"The cat was freezing in the snow. Now it lives with me and my two dogs in California. It's complete chaos. I have lots of scratch marks."

Her care-giving skills also proved up to par while shooting You're Not You, in theaters Oct. 10. She plays a college student/budding rock singer hired to assist a classical pianist (Hilary Swank) diagnosed with ALS.

"It's a movie about friendship, not illness," Rossum says. "I think of it as a non-romantic love story. Through her illness, Hilary's character really teaches this young girl how to live and a better way to value herself."

A singer herself, Rossum wrote and performed a song for the film and currently has an album out. She started singing professionally at age 7 with the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus, and starred in 2004's The Phantom of the Opera.

"Music is part of me. I like to express that way. I sing anything from rap to Plácido Domingo. I sing at the gym, in the shower, everywhere – although not in my hotel room at 4 this morning, which is when I got back from work."

And, when she's not singing, she's serving as an advocate for "women and domestic violence and breast cancer awareness." Being a voice for the voiceless started early – when Rossum was in elementary school.

"When I was a little kid, there was a handicapped girl in my grade, and everyone was making fun of her. I got so mad I started screaming at the top of my lungs for them to stop. They were so mean. I was the one sent to the principal's office because I overreacted. I've always been the kind of person who fights for the underdog." 

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emmyrossum Tuesday morning on #shameless

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The actress reflects on lessons learned while making a movie about the debilitating disease.

By Emmy Rossum, as told to Justine Harman

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emmyrossum Saturday morning tramp workout with @doriegolkin. Thanks for making us sweat @sharonamoves!

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On Saturday, Sept. 27, Golden Globe™ nominee, Emmy Rossum (The Phantom of the Opera, Shameless) will attend the Fest to receive the Avalon award, which honors an actor or filmmaker making waves within the Hollywood community by continually entering "uncharted waters" within their career and standing out from their peers.