Portrait of Liz Callaway

Liz Callaway

Acting

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.

Born: April 13, 1961

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Filmography

2024
Hazbin Hotel

as Speaker of God (voice)

2020
Stars in the House

as Self - Special Guest

2014
The Rewrite

as Mrs. Lerner

1999
Bartok the Magnificent

as Ensemble cast

1998
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

as Adult Kiara (singing voice) (uncredited)

1997
Anastasia

as Anastasia (singing voice)

1996
Aladdin and the King of Thieves

as Jasmine (singing voice)

1994
The Swan Princess

as Princess Odette (singing voice)

1994
The Return of Jafar

as Princess Jasmine (singing voice)

1991
Beauty and the Beast

as Additional Voices (voice)

1986
Follies: In Concert

as Young Sally

1981
Senior Trip

as Judy Matheson

1971
Great Performances

as Young Sally