Sharon Dyall

Sharon Birgitta Dyall (born 28 December 1962 ) is a Swedish singer, actress and voice actress. She became famous in the late 1980s when she acted in the SVT TV series Varuhuset. She has since become known as a singer of soul and jazz music and as a musical performer. She has appeared in many theatre productions including West Side Story (Chinateatern, 1989), A Chorus Line (National Swedish Touring Theatre, 1996), Nine (Malmö Opera, 2002) and Chicago (Stockholm City Theatre, 2014, 2015). Aside from being active on stage and within the field of dubbing, Dyall also holds a degree in Logonomy, Aesthetic Voice and Speech Pedagogy (University College of Music Education) teaching in Voice and Artistic Performance Development.

Early life Dyall was born in Sweden but grew up in London and Barbados. Her father was the jazz musician Colin Dyall. She learned how to play the piano and began dancing at the age of six. When the family moved to Sweden in the 1970s, she joined her father on tour as a backup singer. Her brother, Karl Dyall, is a Swedish dancer, singer and actor.

Career In 1983, she became a member of the band Little Mike & The Sweet Soul Music Band along with band members Little Mike Watson, Nils Landgren, Anders Berglund, Claes af Geijerstam and Anna-Lotta Larsson.

In 1985, she released the solo album I Am and in 1988 she performed with the Swedish band Nasa. In the early 1990s she toured with Anne Linnet and Sanne Salomonsen. She did the show Vårsoul along with Tommy Nilsson at Hamburger Börs in 1997.

In 1984, she started her career as a musical singer; she appeared in the musicals West Side Story and Guys and Dolls at Stockholms Parkteater, and the musical SKÅL at Maximteatern. In 1989, she was awarded the Guldmasken award for "Best supporting actress in a musical" for her role as "Anita" in the musical West Side Story at Chinateatern. She also received acclaim for her roles in the musicals Hair (Chinateatern, 1991), A Chorus Line (National Swedish Touring Theatre, 1996), Jekyll & Hyde (Östgötateatern, 1999–2000) and Nine (Malmö Opera, 2002). She has since appeared in several films and television series, among them Rosenbaum in 1993 and Kommissarie Winter in 2010. She competed in Melodifestivalen 1991 singing "Ge mig ett svar", finishing in fifth place overall. The same year she appeared in the revue Hjalmars hotell at Parkteatern. In 1993, she acted in the revue show Mulliga vitaminer along with Birgitta Andersson and Ulf Brunnberg at Lorensbergsteatern in Gothenburg. In 2007 she released the jazz album Another Angle. She has overseen the Swedish dubbing of films such as Ice Age and The Princess and the Frog and has also done a great deal of dubbing work herself, for instance she has often dubbed the voice of Helena Bonham Carter and is the long-standing character voice of Daphne in the Scooby-Doo Movies and Television series.

Discography 1978: Modern Sound Corporation 1983–85: Little Mike & the Sweet Soul Music Band 1985: I Am 1991: Ge mig ett svar, contributions in Melodifestivalen 1996: For All We Know with Magnum Coltrane Price on Stora Stygga CD Standards 1996: Esmeraldas Bön, soundtrack of Disney's Ringaren i Notre Dame (English title The Hunchback of Notre Dame) 1997: Nu Är Du Min & Vad Skall Du Med Mig Till (Text/Music: Mauro Scocco) 2000: Våra Systrar gå i Brokiga Kläder, poems by Karin Boye 2001: Totta Näslund Duetter 2002: Andliga Klassiker, Björn Hedström 2004: Totta 7 Soul/På drift 2006–18: Christmas with My Friends (6 volumes) with Nils Landgren 2007: Another Angle, with Tommy Berndtsson 2016: Disney Rariteter, soundtracks from Disney films

Audio books 2007: Tusen strålande solar of Khaled Hosseini (Bonnier Audio) 2008: Järngreppet of Aino Trosell (Norstedts) 1988 – Oliver & gänget (voice as Rita) 1991 – Rosenbaum, (TV series) 1991 – Kopplingen (TV series) 1998 – Prinsen av Egypten (voice as Zipporah) 2000 – My Dog Skip (voice as Ellen) 2000 – Buzz Lightyear (voice as Mira Nova) 2017 – Saltön (TV series) 2017 – The Emoji Movie (voice as Smajla) 2017 – Coco (voice as Tant Viktoria)