The well-known performing arts magazine "Variety" named her one of the top ten most watched movie stars in 2000. After that, Emmy frequently took on heavyweight works, and in 2003, she co-starred with Sean Penn and Kevin Bakken in "Mystic River" (2003), competing with the best actors, without being jerky, and the New York Times specifically pointed out that her performance in the film was extremely penetrating and was "one of the most breakthrough performances of 2003", and Time magazine selected her as "the 6 most anticipated new stars".
2004 was a pivotal year for Emmy, who had just turned 18, as she starred in two films with very different styles, One was 20th Century Fox's sci-fi blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, directed by Independence Day and Kuzilla director Roland Emmerich, in which she played the heroine, playing Jack Greenhall ("Death Illusion") and Dennis Quaid. The film tells the story of the catastrophes facing humanity in the next ice age. The second was the famous opera film version of Phantom of the Opera that made Emmy famous, and was nominated for the "Golden Globe Award" for this film.
After entering adolescence, she left the opera house because she was too tall to play a child in the opera. Emmy also performed The Curse of Faust at Carnegie Hall. In 1999, Emmy, who left the opera to perform, portrayed the character of Abigail Williams in the daytime soap opera As the World Turns (1956), and then starred in the TELEVISION films Genius (1999) and The Audrey Hepburn Story (1999), in which she starred. Play as a young Audrey Hepburn. Other television performances include Snoops (1999), Law and Order (1990), and The Practice (1997). At the age of 13, Emmy was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Sundance Film Festival Independent Spirit Award in January 2000 for his debut feature film, Songcatcher (2000).
