Sugar Lyn Beard

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Sugar Lyn Beard
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Beard in June 2016
Born
Stephanie Lyn Beard

(1981-08-27) August 27, 1981 (age 43)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Other names
  • Sugar
  • Sug
  • Suga BayBee
Occupations
  • Actress
  • radio personality
Years active1999–present

Stephanie "Sugar" Lyn Beard (born August 27, 1981) is a Canadian actress and radio personality. She co-hosted The Zone on YTV from 2001 to 2007.

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Early life

Stephanie Lyn Beard was born in the Scarborough district of Toronto on August 27, 1981, the daughter of Bonnita and Winston Beard. [1]

Career

Beard's character "Suga BayBee" was also a character on the Mad Dog and Billie morning show formerly aired on Toronto radio station KISS 92.5. [2] [3] Beard's squeaky-voiced character began appearing on KISS when Beard was 19 years old and otherwise working as a sales clerk. [4]

Beard's voice in 2000 was most known as the voice of Sailor Mini Moon in the Cloverway adaptation of Sailor Moon . From June 2001 to January 26, 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. Between 2002 and 2007, the programming block was hosted by both Beard and Carlos Bustamante, another long-time YTV host that was the host of The Zone from 2002-2018. She also hosted additional programs like Sugar & Avril: A Zone Special. [5] She and Bustamante hosted a weekly hour-long program, Plugged In, on the Corus Entertainment website boomboxbaby.ca. [6]

She also had a column in the youth newspaper, Brand New Planet ; it was distributed with subscriptions to the Toronto Star only. [7] In 2006, the Star put her on the long list for Children's Entertainment, when creating their Essentially Canadian Top 10 lists. [8]

Among her works, she played the role of Susan in the 2011 film 50/50 [9] and the character Fiona in two episodes of season 6 of Weeds . She also played Krissy in the 2012 film For a Good Time, Call... , and Jeanie in the 2016 comedy Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates .

Personal life

Beard is known for her naturally high voice and small stature, standing at 4 ft 11 in. [1]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2004 Care Bears: Journey to Joke-a-lot Wish BearVoice
2005 The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie
2010True Story. Based on Things That Never Actually Happened. ...And Some That DidAmanda
Not Quite CollegeJessica
2011 Stag Mary
DarlaLoud Mouth
50/50 Susan
2012 For a Good Time, Call... Krissy
Living LoadedMaureen
2015 Aloha Global One Volunteer
2016 Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates Jeanie
Sausage Party Baby Carrots, CookiesVoice
2017 Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie Goodie Two-Shoes Girl
The Disaster Artist Actress No. 2
Palm SwingsAllison Hughes
2018 Game Over, Man! Herself
The Package Sheryl
2020 Unpregnant Kate
Eat Wheaties! Carla Fisk
2025 Little Lorraine Nancy

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2000 Sailor Moon Serenity "Rini" Tsukino/Sailor Mini Moon Voice, 77 episodes (Cloverway dub)
The Red Green Show Kelly Cook2 episodes (S10E1 "Sausage Envy") (S10E6 "Survivor")
2001–2002 Pecola CocoVoice
2001 The Santa Claus Brothers Luisa
2001–2007 The Zone HerselfHost and producer
2002 Franklin Betty BeaverVoice, episode: "Franklin and Betty"
Beyblade G-RevolutionMing MingVoice, 8 episodes
2003 The Save-Ums! Olena OctopusVoice
2003–2004The World of PiwiSunny, Brooklyn
2004 Cyberchase CreechVoice, 4 episodes
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends SweetieVoice, episode: "Country Bug-Kin"
Kevin Hill Santa's HelperVoice, episode: "Love Don't Live Here Anymore"
2005 Atomic Betty CadetsVoice, 2 episodes
2005–2008 Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs Nancy the Nanosaurus Voice, 7 episodes
2006 Sons of Butcher Bar GirlVoice, 3 episodes
Captain Flamingo KirstenVoice
2006–2009 Di-Gata Defenders KaraVoice, 34 episodes
2009 King of the Hill Michael SavageVoice, episode: "Uncool Customer"
2009–2012 The Amazing Spiez! TamiVoice, 52 episodes
2010 Weeds Fiona2 episodes
2012 The Mindy Project ClaireEpisode: "Hiring and Firing"
2013 Ghost Ghirls BeckyEpisode: "Something Borrowed, Something Boo"
2014 Garfunkel and Oates EpiphanyEpisode: "Rule 34"
2015 You're the Worst JustineEpisode: "Born Dead"
2016, 2019 Drunk History Catharine Fox, Herself/Narrator2 episodes
2017–2018, 2023 The Flash Becky Sharpe / Hazard, Clifford DeVoe / Thinker (in Hazard's body)4 episodes
2022–present Super Wish Ronny Bobby Candle #4
2024 Sausage Party: Foodtopia Jeri RiceVoice
2025 The Studio Rebecca Chan-SandersEpisode: The Pediatric Oncologist

Radio

References

  1. 1 2 https://imdb.com/name/nm0063944/bio/
  2. Goddard, Peter (December 18, 2000). "Listeners love morning KISS ; Mouse-like Suga BayBee radio voice for younger generation" . Toronto Star . Retrieved July 9, 2012.
  3. Barnard, Linda (January 23, 2012). "Sundance 2012: For A Good Time Call, first look at raunchy comedy". Toronto Star . Retrieved July 9, 2012.
  4. Pigg, Susan (February 24, 2001). "Kiss and makeover ; Country music station CISS 92 changed to pop tunes overnight". Toronto Star . Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved July 9, 2012.
  5. "Country music Industry as plastic as its songs". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
  6. Your Name (this will appear with your post) (November 7, 2006). "Broadband Radio Booming, Baby | Mediacaster Magazine – Broadband & Content". Mediacaster Magazine. Archived from the original on January 28, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
  7. "Sweet! Suga Baybee's in Brand New Planet (ad)". Toronto Star. Toronto ON. February 10, 2004. p. E16.
  8. "Essentially Canadian: Children's Entertainment". Toronto Star. Toronto ON. June 22, 2006.
  9. Cusimano, Salvatore (April 17, 2012). "50 e 50 – Recensione". ecodelcinema (in Italian). Retrieved July 9, 2012.
Preceded by Voice of Rini/Sailor Mini Moon
Eps. 96 – 159
Succeeded by