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It has been 20 years since Emmy Rossum and Gerard Butler stepped into the enduring masks and white costume to deliver The Phantom of the Opera to the large display screen.
The film, which was launched extensively within the U.S. on Jan. 21, 2005, is stuffed with all the iconic moments from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic musical that made it the longest working present in Broadway historical past.
Now, 20 years later, see what the movie’s star-studded solid is as much as as we speak.
Gerard Butler
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After kicking off his onscreen profession within the late Nineties with a task in Mrs. Brown alongside Judi Dench, Gerard Butler continued touchdown jobs in each movie and TV earlier than moving into the enduring position of the Phantom — the place he confirmed off his singing chops.
Since then he is booked a number of huge components in movies reminiscent of 300, P.S. I Love You, The Ugly Fact, The Bounty Hunter, Olympus Has Fallen and most just lately Den of Thieves: Pantera in addition to lending his voice to the gathering of The right way to Prepare Your Dragon animated movies.
Arising, Butler is ready to reprise each his The right way to Prepare Your Dragon character Stoick and Has Fallen franchise character Mike Banning within the The right way to Prepare Your Dragon live-action movie and Has Fallen 4.
Emmy Rossum
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The early 2000s have been a busy time for Emmy Rossum who not solely landed the position of Christine in Phantom but in addition appeared in films reminiscent of Mystic River and The Day After Tomorrow. The position within the movie adaptation of the legendary musical made good sense for Rossum who sang with the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Heart in New York Metropolis as a toddler. In 2007, she launched her first album.
One in every of her largest roles up to now got here in 2011 when she started her nine-season tenure as Fiona Gallagher on Shameless. Following her departure from the present in 2019, Rossum appeared in 2022’s Angelyne and 2023’s The Crowded Room. She has additionally stepped behind the digital camera on a number of events together with two episodes of Shameless, per IMDB, and an episode of Trendy Love.
In late 2024, Rossum carried out within the off-Broadway manufacturing of Walden in New York Metropolis.
Rossum wed Mr. Robotic creator Sam Esmail in 2017 and the 2 share a son and a daughter.
Patrick Wilson
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Phantom marked certainly one of Patrick Wilson‘s first onscreen credit with the position of Raoul after beginning his profession on stage and on Broadway. Since then he is appeared in movies like Onerous Sweet, Watchmen, The Swap, Prometheus and a slew of horror movies together with Insidious, The Conjuring, The Nun and Annabelle Comes Dwelling.
He is additionally landed recurring roles on sequence like A Gifted Man, Fargo and transient appearances on Ladies and The Different Two. Most just lately he appeared as Scott within the film Millers in Marriage which reunited him with Phantom costar Minnie Driver. In 2025 he’s set to reprise the position of Ed Warren in The Conjuring: Final Rites.
Wilson married fellow actor Dagmara Domińczyk in 2005 after first assembly in drama faculty. They share two sons, Kalin and Kassian.
Minnie Driver
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After showing in superstar-making roles in Circle of Associates, Grosse Pointe Clean and Good Will Looking within the Nineties, and even lending her voice to Tarzan as Jane in 1999, Minnie Driver had enjoyable taking over the position of diva Carlotta in Phantom.
She quickly after landed the Emmy-nominated position of Dahlia Malloy on The Riches and in 2014 started one other main position on the small display screen in A few Boy. Beginning in 2016 she starred as Maya DiMeo in Speechless for the present’s three season run. She later appeared on a number of episodes of Will & Grace and The Serpent Queen and most just lately lent her voice to Arcane.
Driver turned a mother in 2008 when she welcomed son Henry (she selected to maintain his father’s identification a secret). In 2024, Driver marked her six-year anniversary with companion Addison O’Dea.
Miranda Richardson
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Miranda Richardson had greater than 20 years value of display screen and stage credit when she stepped into the position of Madame Giry in Phantom, together with Oscar-nominated performances in 1992’s Injury and 1994’s Tom & Viv.
Since then, she appeared as Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fireplace, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Half 1 and landed roles in sequence together with Parade’s Finish, World With out Finish and Curfew. Her most up-to-date credit score got here in 2023 when she voiced the character of Mrs. Tweedy in Rooster Run: Daybreak of the Nugget — a task she initially performed in 2000.
Ciarán Hinds
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Ciarán Hinds had additionally been working in movie and theater for years when he landed the position of Firmin in Phantom — together with alongside Driver in Circle of Associates and in Broadway’s Nearer.
He later appeared in main movies reminiscent of Tinker Tailor Solider Spy and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Half 2 in addition to on Broadway once more in productions of Cat on a Scorching Tin Roof and The Crucible. His voice could be heard each in Frozen and Frozen II and made varied appearances on Recreation of Thrones. In 2021, the Belfast native starred within the Oscar-nominated movie Belfast as Pop, a task that earned him his first Acadaemy Award nomination, for greatest supporting actor.
Most just lately, Hinds landed roles on The Dry in addition to The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy tv sequence.
He and his spouse Hélène Patarot cut up their time between Paris and London, and have a daughter, Aoife Hinds, who has acted in exhibits together with Derry Ladies and Regular Individuals.