About

Known credits:
16
Birthday:
1961-04-13
Place of birth:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Liz Callaway

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting

2022 Ukraine: Answering the Call Actor Self N/A
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2020 Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim Actor N/A
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2016 Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened... Actor Self 59
Average
2014 The Rewrite Actor Mrs. Lerner 59
Average
2012 Broadway or Bust Actor N/A
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2006 Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 3 - Perfectly Princess Actor Jasmine (singing voice) 59
Average
2005 Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party Actor Jasmine (singing voice) 59
Average
1999 Bartok the Magnificent Actor Ensemble cast 59
Average
1998 The Lion King II: Simba's Pride Actor Adult Kiara (singing voice) (uncredited) 68
Fair
1997 Anastasia Actor Anastasia (singing voice) 74
Good
1994 The Swan Princess Actor Princess Odette (singing voice) 63
Fair
1994 The Return of Jafar Actor Princess Jasmine (singing voice) 61
Fair
1991 Beauty and the Beast Actor Additional Voices (voice) 76
Good
1987 Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street Actor Mrs. Primm (singing voice) N/A
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1986 Follies: In Concert Actor Young Sally 59
Average
1981 Senior Trip Actor Judy Matheson 58
Average