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Emmy Rossumis in one of Hollywood’s most low-key relationships.
The actress, best known for her role as Fiona Gallagher inShameless,is married to television and film producer, Sam Esmail.
“I just thought he was one of the more unique, kind, creative, brilliant people I’d ever met. Just somebody that I always wanted to be around,” Rossum toldVogueof her first impression of Esmail.
So who is Emmy Rossum’s husband? Keep reading for everything there is to know about Sam Esmail.
He’s a writer, director and producer
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“I was pretty much an outsider,” he said. “I’m Egyptian, and my parents stupidly decided to move us down to South Carolina when I was five, which was pretty brutal.”
At age 9, he developed a passion for computers after receiving a Commodore 64, which he used to “copy programs and all those things you’re not meant to do with a Commodore 64.”
He began programming code a few years later, but said he wasn’t very adept at it: “I could come up with ideas for software. But to actually sit and write every bit of code, every command — I just didn’t have the patience.”
He minored in computer science at New York University and after graduating, launched his software firm, Portal Vision, in 1998, which built software for Internet service providers. “We raised $6 million, and I ran the company for two years,” Esmail toldRolling Stone. “And then, in 2000, we went bust with the [dot-com] crash.”
He has multiple degrees
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Esmailearned a bachelor’s degreein film with a minor in computer science from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1998. After graduating, he founded Portal Vision, though he later left his position as president and chief technology officer to attend a creative writing program at Dartmouth.
In 2001, he moved to Los Angeles and attended the AFI Conservatory, a non-profit graduate film school, where he graduated with an MFA in directing in 2004.
He and Rossum met through his first feature film
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Rossum and Esmailmet in 2012on the set of his first feature film,Comet, which he wrote and directed.
“He sent a letter that accompanied the script,” Rossum toldVoguein 2017. “It’s not uncommon for a director to do that, especially for someone for whom it’s their first feature, but the tone of the letter and the way he wrote it seemed immediately familiar. He was self-effacing, humble, and funny … I took an immediate liking to the tone and the person who was writing the letter.”
They made their public debut as a couple at the June 2014 premiere ofComet, which also starredJustin Long.
He proposed to Rossum with a mockNew York Timesarticle
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Esmailpopped the questionin August 2015 with a unique proposal. The couple had a tradition of reading the Modern Love column ofThe New York Timesevery Sunday, as Rossum toldVoguein 2017.
“I do a dramatic reading of it for him. Even if we’re not in the same place, I read it to him over the phone. Then one weekend we didn’t read it — I don’t remember why exactly — and the following Friday he reminded me that we hadn’t,” she explained.
However, he encouraged her to read it, even though she was preparing to head into the bathtub. She soon realized the plot was quite similar to their own love story: a director who falls in love with an actress.
“Then, I kind of scanned to the end and it said, ‘Love, your Sam,’ " she recalled. “And I realized that he had gone through this whole process of writing this whole story. Apparently he had called Daniel Jones atThe New York Timesand gotten their paper template and gotten the people there to print out a whole mock section on the bottom half. He had even put an ad for the Ralph Lauren Ricky Bag.”
She finished the story in the tub, and right there and then, Esmail got down on one knee to propose.
He and Rossum got married in 2017
On their second anniversary, Rossum shared aphoto from their wedding day, captioned simply: “Happy anniversary, my love.”
He and Rossum have two kids
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“5.24.21,” Rossumcaptioned the post. “On a sunny Monday morning, at 8:13AM, we welcomed our daughter into the world.”
Rossum and Esmail quietlywelcomed their first sonon April 5, 2023, announcing the news on Instagram the following day.
“04.05.23 On a foggy Wednesday morning, our son was born,” she wrote in the caption.
They’re pros at long-distance
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While both Rossum and Esmail have hectic schedules, theShamelessactress previously toldExtrathat they find ways to connect even when they’re apart from each other.
“We are both equally committed to our art, as we always have been, and to each other,” she said. “We text multiple times a day, all day long, send little videos back and forth on set, try to share as much of our lives as we can so we don’t feel that disconnect.”
source: people.com
