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