News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

HAMILTON's Renee Elise Goldsberry to Guest on Disney's 'The Lion Guard'; Check Out Photos!

By: Aug. 30, 2016
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe.




Existing user? Just click login.

Goldsberry records Disney's THE LION GUARD

BWW has learned that Tony Award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry, who currently stars as Angelica Schuyler Church in Broadway's HAMILTON and will star opposite Oprah Winfrey in HBO Films' "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," will voice a guest role for season two of Disney Junior's hit animated series THE LION GUARD, which continues the epic storytelling of Disney's "The Lion King."

Goldsberry will voice Dhahabu the Golden Zebra, the charismatic leader of a group of zebras. Fun fact: Goldsberry's Broadway debut was as Nala in THE LION KING!

"The Lion Guard" is executive-produced by Ford Riley and airs daily on Disney Channel and Disney Junior. For 2016 to date, it is the #1 series across preschooler-dedicated TV networks in Total Viewers, Kids 2-5, Boys 2-5 and Adults/Women 18-49. Globally, the series has reached over 87 million viewers worldwide in 155 countries and 29 different languages.

Renée Elise Goldsberry won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for her role as Angelica Schuyler in HAMILTON.

Her other Broadway credits include Good People, The Color Purple, Rent, The Lion King. Off-Broadway credits include Hamilton (Lortel and Drama Desk Award), As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost, Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Select TV credits include "The Good Wife," "The Following," "Law & Order: SVU," "Masters of Sex," "Younger," "OLTL." Select film: Sisters, Every Secret Thing, Rent: Live on Broadway, All About You.




Videos