Emmy Rossum Through the Years, in Honor of Her 30th Birthday

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - AUGUST 06:  Actress Emmy Rossum attends the 32nd annual Television Critics Association Awards during the 2016 Television Critics Association Summer Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on August 6, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.  (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
The birthday girl barely looking her age. (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Emmy Rossum is officially dirty 30.

The Shameless actress celebrated her milestone birthday Sept. 12, but she got the party started over the previous weekend. The brunette was feted by loved ones — including her fiancé, Sam Esmail, the creator of Mr. Robot, and her BFF, Dorie Golkin Smith — at a West Coast bash, where she rocked the heck out of a low-cut LBD in a room filled with festive balloons.

A photo posted by Emmy Rossum (@emmyrossum) on Sep 12, 2016 at 10:04am PDT

Rossum joked about this photo, which shows her pushing away Esmail, who is trying to give her a kiss as she prepares to blow out the candles on her cake. “When you’re trying to make a wish and he’s trying to give you a kiss,” she wrote.

when you’re trying to make a wish and he’s trying to give you a kiss

A photo posted by Emmy Rossum (@emmyrossum) on Sep 11, 2016 at 10:18am PDT

Let’s hope they work that out by their wedding day.

While Emmy is just now joining the 30 club (along with fellow Summer of 1986 babies Lilo, the Olsen twins, and Shia LaBeouf), it feels like she’s been around forever — maybe because she was a child star or perhaps it’s because she plays mom to so many kids on Shameless (when her character isn’t in jail or shacking up with her latest boyfriend, that is). So in honor of her birthday, here are four decades of Emmy.

Here she is 10 years ago…

Rossum — purple and puckered — at the U.K. premiere of <i>Poseidon</i> in 2006. (Photo: Getty Images)
Rossum — purple and puckered — at the U.K. premiere of Poseidon in 2006. She’d made a name for herself just two years before, appearing in both The Day After Tomorrow and The Phantom of the Opera. (Photo: Getty Images)

Here she is about 20 years ago…

Like the rest of the world, she appeared in an episode of <i>Law & Order</i>, back in 1997. (Credit: YouTube)
Like the rest of the world, she appeared in an episode of Law & Order, back in 1997. (Credit: YouTube)

About 25 years ago…

#tbt

A photo posted by Emmy Rossum (@emmyrossum) on May 19, 2016 at 5:36am PDT

And Emmy Money as a baby nearly 30 years ago…

May her 30s be filled with prosperity, good health, and wealth. (Though we discourage any future consumption of money.)