Sharon Dyall |
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| File:Sharon Dyall.JPG Dyall in 2013 |
| Born | Sharon Birgitta Dyall
(1962-12-28) 28 December 1962 (age 61)
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| Occupation(s) | Actress, Singer, Dubbing director |
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Sharon Birgitta Dyall (born 28 December 1962) is a Swedish singer, actress, director and dubbing director. Dyall became famous in the late 1980s when she acted in the SVT TV series Varuhuset. She has since become known as a singer within soul and jazz music and as a musical performer. She has appeared in West Side Story (Chinateatern, 1989), A Chorus Line (Riksteatern, 1996), Nine (Malmö Opera, 2002) and Chicago (Stockholms Stadsteater, 2014, 2015).
Early life
Dyall was born in Sweden but grew up in London and Barbados. She learned how to play the piano and began dancing at the age of six.[1] When the family moved to Sweden in the 1970s, she followed her father jazz musician Colin Dyall on tour as one of his backup singers.[2] 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.[3]
In 1985 she released the solo album I Am.[4] In the early 1990s she toured with Anne Linnet and Sanne Salomonsen.[5] She did the show Vårsoul along with Tommy Nilsson at Hamburger Börs in 1997.[6]
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 Cheers at Maximteatern.[7] 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.[8] She also received acclaim for her roles in the musicals Hair (Chinateatern, 1991), A Chorus Line (Riksteatern, 1996), Jekyll & Hyde (Östgötateatern, 1999-2000) and Nine (Malmö Opera, 2002).[8] In 2014, and 2015, she had the leading role in the musical Chicago at Stockholms Stadsteater.[8]
Her big breakthrough came in 1987 with her role as "Tina" in the SVT drama series Varuhuset.[9] She has since appeared in several films and television series, among them Rosenbaum in 1993 and Kommissarie Winter in 2010.[10] She competed in Melodifestivalen 1991 singing "Ge mig ett svar", finishing in fifth place overall.[11] 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 Göteborg.[1]
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.[12] In 2007 she released the jazz album Another Angle.[12] She has also been a back up singer for singers such as Mauro Scocco, Lisa Nilsson, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Björn Skifs, Titiyo, Ola Magnell and Nils Landgren.[13]
On her career as an actress and singer, she is also working as a dubbing director at Sun Studio and Dubberman studio.[14] She oversees the Swedish dubbing of films such as Ice Age and Hercules and has also done a great deal of dubbing work herself.[14] She also wrote the Swedish lyrics to the Disney film Frozen in 2013.[15]
