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Sugar Lyn Beard
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Born |
Stephanie Lyn Beard August 27, 1981 Scarborough, Ontario, Canada |
Nationality | Canadian |
Other names | Sugar Lyn Beard, Sugar, Sug, Suga BayBee |
Occupation | Film actress, television actress, voice actress, radio host, singer, songwriter |
Years active | 1999–present |
Stephanie Lyn Beard (born August 27, 1981), better known by her stage name Sugar Lyn Beard, is a Canadian television actress, voice actress and television and radio personality. Her radio host persona uses the name "Suga BayBee", and as co-host of The Zone, she was called "Sugar". For many of her Hollywood roles, she also uses the stage name "Sugar Lyn Beard".
Beard was born in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. Her Suga BayBee was also a character on the Mad Dog and Billie morning show formerly aired on Toronto radio station KISS 92.5. Beard's squeaky-voiced character began appearing on KISS when Beard was 19 years old and otherwise working as a sales clerk.
From 2001 to 2007, Beard hosted and produced The Zone, a series of short interstitial segments that aired between regular weekday programming on the Canadian children's network YTV. She also hosted additional programs like Sugar & Avril: A Zone Special. She and Carlos hosted a weekly hour-long program, Plugged In, on the Corus Entertainment website boomboxbaby.ca.
She also had a column in the youth newspaper, Brand New Planet; it was distributed with subscriptions to the Toronto Star only. In 2006, the Star put her on the long list for Children's Entertainment, when creating their Essentially Canadian Top 10 lists.
Among her works, she played the role of Susan in the 2011 film 50/50 and the character Fiona in two episodes of season 6 of Weeds. Her most recent projects are as Krissy in the 2012 film For a Good Time, Call..., and the role of Maureen in the 2012 pilot Living Loaded. She was also featured in the 2016 comedy Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.