
Liz Callaway
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1961-04-13
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
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

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