<p><a href="/images/old/6a00e5537d966288330147e23cd109970b-800wi.jpg" rel="lightbox" style="display: inline;"><img alt="Emmy-rossum-esquire" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00e5537d966288330147e23cd109970b" src="/images/old/6a00e5537d966288330147e23cd109970b-500wi.jpg" style="width: 470px;" title="Emmy-rossum-esquire" /></a> <br />The beautiful actress <strong>Emmy Rossum</strong> is in <strong><a href="http://www.esquire.com/women/funny-joke-from-a-beautiful-woman/emmy-rossum-video-0211" target="_blank">Esquire Magazine</a></strong> as their funny girl. I like this section they have where they feature a sexy actress telling a joke. Don&#39;t expect every joke to be very funny but at least Esquire knows how to pick the women telling the jokes.&#0160;</p> <p>The 24-year old native New Yorker has been singing at the Metropolitan Opera since she was seven with Pavarotti, no less. She dropped out of Columbia University to head to Hollywood. I guess after starring in movies such as <em>Mystic River</em> in 2003,&#0160;<em>The Day After Tomorrow </em>and <em>The Phantom of the Opera</em>&#0160;both in 2004 we say she made the right choice.&#0160;</p> <p>In her next big project, she will headline her on Showtime series called <em>Shameless</em>.</p> <p>She plays Fiona Gallagher, the feisty, overwhelmed daughter of a ne’er-do-well played by William H. Macy. “It’s definitely brought out my ballsier side,” she tells the magazine.</p> <p>Emmy is also the niece of designer Vera Wang, to whom she is related by marriage, and grew up in a single-parent home raised by her mother.</p> <p>Rossum was married to music executive Justin Siegel for a year and a half before he filed for divorce in Sept. 2009. After that, she dated Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz after touring with the band in the summer of 2009. They broke up in Sept. 2010. See more pictures and her telling her joke in a video on the next page.&#0160; </p>  <!--more-->   <p><a href="/images/old/6a00e5537d966288330147e23cd1e2970b-800wi.jpg" rel="lightbox" style="display: inline;"><img alt="Emmy-rossum-esquire-01" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00e5537d966288330147e23cd1e2970b" src="/images/old/6a00e5537d966288330147e23cd1e2970b-500wi.jpg" style="width: 470px;" title="Emmy-rossum-esquire-01" /></a> <br /> <a href="/images/old/6a00e5537d966288330147e23cd26f970b-800wi.jpg" rel="lightbox" style="display: inline;"><img alt="Emmy-rossum-esquire-02" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00e5537d966288330147e23cd26f970b" src="/images/old/6a00e5537d966288330147e23cd26f970b-500wi.jpg" style="width: 470px;" title="Emmy-rossum-esquire-02" /></a> <br /><br /></p> <p> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" height="412" id="flashObj" width="480"> <param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="flashVars" value="videoId=737677231001&amp;playerID=4250084001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAP1Oezk~,8IuYyBqyqhD6W2bK2oGj2ctWvtQ9lniL&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true" /> <param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /> <param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=737677231001&amp;playerID=4250084001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAP1Oezk~,8IuYyBqyqhD6W2bK2oGj2ctWvtQ9lniL&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true" height="412" name="flashObj" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" seamlesstabbing="false" src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" swliveconnect="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" /> </object> </p> 