Self-possessed and intelligent, she admits to being “sassy” and headstrong - and makes no apologies for that. And, next month, the 18-year-old will be competing for best actress, musical or comedy, at the Golden Globe ceremony. The Broadcast Film Critics Assn also gave her a critics’ choice award. The National Board of Review called her portrayal of Christine, a young soprano at the Paris Opera who falls under the Phantom’s spell, the best breakthrough performance by an actress this year. Nothing prepared her, however, for assuming the lead roles - with two other unknowns - in Joel Schumacher’s $70-million film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera.” Though the picture has elicited mixed reviews, Rossum has come out a winner. Two years later, she picked up pointers from a Who’s Who of Hollywood talent, playing Sean Penn’s murdered daughter in Clint Eastwood’s critically acclaimed “Mystic River.” Last summer, Rossum co-starred as a brainiac love interest in the global-warming disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow.” After a series of TV roles, the 13-year-old Rossum played a tooth-deprived Appalachian orphan in Maggie Greenwald’s “Songcatcher” - a performance the Independent Spirit Awards honored as the “best debut” of 2000.
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