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Liz Callaway

Liz Callaway

Born: 1961-04-13 • Chicago, Illinois, USA

Liz Callaway is a Tony nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer and recording artist. She made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in Baby, and for five years won acclaim as Grizabella in Cats. She has also starred in the original Broadway casts of Miss Saigon, The Three Musketeers, and The Look of Love.

Liz sang the Academy Award-nominated song “Journey to the Past” in the animated feature Anastasia and is also the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Disney’s Aladdin and the King of Thieves and The Return of Jafar. Other film work includes the singing voice of the title character in The Swan Princess, Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride, Beauty and the Beast, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars and The Rewrite with Hugh Grant.

She received an Emmy Award for hosting Ready to Go, a daily, live children’s program on CBS in Boston. Other TV credits include In Performance at the White House, Inside the Actor’s Studio: Stephen Sondheim, In Performance at the White House, Christmas with the Boston Pops, The David Letterman Show, and Senior Trip (CBS Movie of the Week).

Liz has released eight solo albums: Anywhere I Wander: Liz Callaway Sings Frank Loesser, The Story Goes On: Liz Callaway On and Off-Broadway, The Beat Goes On, Passage of Time, Merry and Bright, The Essential Liz Callaway, Comfort and Joy: An Acoustic Christmas, and her latest, To Steve with Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim. Her numerous other recordings include Sibling Revelry, Boom! Live at Birdland, The Maury Yeston Songbook, Dreaming Wide Awake: The Music of Scott Alan, Hair in Concert, and the complete recording of Allegro produced by the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization.

Filmography
Ukraine: Answering the Call poster
Ukraine: Answering the Call
2022 • Self
Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim poster
Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim
2020
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened... poster
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
2016 • Self
The Rewrite poster
The Rewrite
2014 • Mrs. Lerner
Loving the Silent Tears: The Musical poster
Loving the Silent Tears: The Musical
2013
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 3 - Perfectly Princess poster
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 3 - Perfectly Princess
2006 • Jasmine (singing voice)
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party poster
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
2005 • Jasmine (singing voice)
Bartok the Magnificent poster
Bartok the Magnificent
1999 • Ensemble cast
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride poster
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
1998 • Adult Kiara (singing voice) (uncredited)
Anastasia poster
Anastasia
1997 • Anastasia (singing voice)
Aladdin and the King of Thieves poster
Aladdin and the King of Thieves
1996 • Jasmine (singing voice)
The Return of Jafar poster
The Return of Jafar
1994 • Princess Jasmine (singing voice)
The Swan Princess poster
The Swan Princess
1994 • Princess Odette (singing voice)
Beauty and the Beast poster
Beauty and the Beast
1991 • Additional Voices (voice)
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street poster
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
1987 • Mrs. Primm (singing voice)
Follies: In Concert poster
Follies: In Concert
1986 • Young Sally
Senior Trip poster
Senior Trip
1981 • Judy Matheson