diff --git a/backend/chainlit/config.py b/backend/chainlit/config.py
index 5a0d2c4178..baaab7841a 100644
--- a/backend/chainlit/config.py
+++ b/backend/chainlit/config.py
@@ -35,7 +35,11 @@
     from chainlit.message import Message
     from chainlit.types import ChatProfile, InputAudioChunk, Starter, ThreadDict
     from chainlit.user import User
-
+else:
+    # Pydantic needs to resolve forward annotations. Because all of these are used
+    # within `typing.Callable`, alias to `Any` as Pydantic does not perform validation
+    # of callable argument/return types anyway.
+    Request = Response = Action = Message = ChatProfile = InputAudioChunk = Starter = ThreadDict = User = Any  # fmt: off
 
 BACKEND_ROOT = os.path.dirname(__file__)
 PACKAGE_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(BACKEND_ROOT))