Emmy Rossum has only ever starred in original films.
Emmy Rossum . Rossum has starred in movies including Songcatcher ( 2000 ) , An American Rhapsody , ( 2001 ) and Passionada ( 2002 ) . Songcatcher . Although Songcatcher is a fictional film , it is loosely based on the work of Olive Dame Campbell , founder of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown , North Carolina , and that of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp , portrayed at the end of the film as professor Cyrus Whittle . The Phantom of the Opera is a 2004 British-American musical drama film based on Andrew Lloyd Webber 's 1986 musical of the same name , which in turn is based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux .