Emmy Rossum is in her curly-hair era.

When Page Six Style jokingly asked about her hair getting frizzy in the humidity, the actress, 40, got serious.

“Yeah, but I like that,” she told us on the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards 2026 red carpet.

“I embrace my wholeness,” Rossum continued, “my whole ethnicity, my specificity of texture. I think it’s important to step fully into who we are and not, you know, make ourselves smaller than we need to be.”

Rossum, who looked fabulous in a black sparkling Hermès gown, can be seen rocking her natural curls in the Hulu series “Furious.”

“There is an emotional intent there for me to be able to be more of my private self in public,” Rossum told People at the “Furious” premiere in July.

“I think it’s important for me to feel empowered in my authenticity and my uniqueness,” she explains. “And every time someone says that they like it, even though that shouldn’t be making me feel better, it does.”

This comes after years of chemically straightening her locks.

In a 2022 Instagram video for Vogue, the “Shameless” alum shared how her perception of her hair has changed.

“What I love about curly hair, I think that it projects a confidence,” she said. “For so many years, I straightened my hair. I keratin-ed my hair. I would flat-iron and blow-dry and try to kind of contort this into a different ideal of beauty.”

“And finally, embracing my natural hair is something that now makes me feel so unique,” she added.

The revelation was partly due in part to her daughter, whom she welcomed with husband Sam Esmail in 2021.

“I also had a daughter, and I was like, you know, I should just start wearing my hair the way it is,” she told Kelly Clarkson on Clarkson’s talk show. “Why should I tell her that she should make her hair look [like] anything other than how it grows out of her head?”