Jodi Benson has received worldwide recognition & critical acclaim as the voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid (1989), Tour Guide Barbie in Toy Story 2 (1999), Weebo in Flubber (1997) as well as Thumbelina in Thumbelina (1994). Other projects include The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008), The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000) as Ariel, Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001) as Lady, 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2002) as Anita, Joseph: King of Dreams (2000) as Asenath as well as in Balto: Wolf Quest (2001) & Balto III: Wings of Change (2004) as Jenna. She appears in Enchanted (2007) as Sam. She received a Tony & Helen Hayes Award nomination for best actress in a musical for originating the role of Polly Baker in the Ira Gershwin musical Crazy For You. Other Broadway credits include Doria Hudson in Howard Ashman-Marvin Hamlisch musical Smile, Betty Bursteter in Cy Coleman's Welcome to the Club & Virginia in Kenny Ortega's Marilyn: An American Musical. Internationally, she has had the honor of sharing the stage w/ her husband Ray Benson at the European premiere of Ira Gershwin's My One & Only, starring as Miss Edythe Herbert. In Los Angeles, she starred in the critically-acclaimed Reprise/UCLA production of Babes in Arms as Bunny, South Pacific as Nellie Forbush, Flora the Red Menace, Ado Annie in Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle & Chess Florence Vassey, for which she won the Best Actress Drama League Award. She can be heard on over a dozen recordings & has a 6-part DVD series entitled Baby Faith from the creators of Baby Einstein. Her animated-TV series include the Camp Lazlo! (2004), The Little Mermaid (1992), Batman Beyond (1999), The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, The Wild Thornberrys (1998), Barbie, Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999), P.J. Sparkles (1992), as well as many others. On the concert stage, she has performed as a concert soloist with symphonies all over the world such as the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, The National Symphony, Cleveland/ Dallas/Tokyo Philharmonic, to name a few. She has starred in the Kennedy Center Honors for Ginger Rogers, The 25th Anniversary of Walt Disney, Central Park Disney Spectacular and Disney's 100 Years of Magic. She's honored to be the resident guest soloist for the Walt Disney Company/Disney Cruise Line & ambassador for feature animation. She gives thanks & praise to the Lord for her family, friends, her loving husband, Ray Benson as well as her precious children: son McKinley Benson & daughter Delaney.