"Beautiful Ghosts" is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for the 2019 Cats film adaptation, written by Swift and Cats creator Andrew Lloyd Webber, and produced by Greg Wells, Lloyd Webber, and Cats director Tom Hooper. It was released on November 15, 2019. The song is performed in the film by the principal character Victoria, portrayed by Francesca Hayward. A 30-second reprise is also sung by Judi Dench as Old Deuteronomy. Swift performs the official single version that is played over the ending credits. The song received a nomination for Best Original Song at the 77th Golden Globe Awards. Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, she became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal. Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US and its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.