Sharon Dyall

Sharon Birgitta Dyall (born 28 December 1962 ) is a Swedish singer, actress and voice actress.

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.

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.

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 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 1985, she released the solo album I Am.

Her big breakthrough in acting came in 1987 with her role as "Tina" in the SVT drama series Varuhuset.

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.

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.

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.

In the early 1990s she toured with Anne Linnet and Sanne Salomonsen.

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 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.

She has since appeared in several films and television series, among them Rosenbaum in 1993 and Kommissarie Winter in 2010.

In 1993, she acted in the revue show Mulliga vitaminer along with Birgitta Andersson and Ulf Brunnberg at Lorensbergsteatern in Göteborg.

Dyall has sung a lot of jazz along with bands such as Peter Asplund trio och Peter Asplund Big Band Show, Claes Crona Trio, Blue House Jazz Orchestra, Stockholms Jazz Orchestra, Mats Holmqvists Stora Stygga, Bohuslän Big Band, Sandviken Big Band and Norrbotten Big Band.

She did the show Vårsoul along with Tommy Nilsson at Hamburger Börs in 1997.

In 2007 she released the jazz album Another Angle.

She has also been a backup singer for singers such as Mauro Scocco, Lisa Nilsson, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Björn Skifs, Titiyo, Ola Magnell and Nils Landgren.

In her career as an actress and singer, she also works as a dubbing director at Sun Studio (SDI) and Dubberman studio.

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.

In 2013, she wrote the Swedish translation for the lyrics of songs from the Disney film Frozen.

In 2014, and 2015, she had the leading role in the musical Chicago at the Stockholm City Theatre.

and acted in 8 Women at the same theatre in 2018.