Sugar Lyn Beard

Stephanie Lyn Beard, better known by her stage name Sugar Lyn Beard, is a Canadian actress and radio personality. Her radio host persona uses the name "Suga BayBee", and as co-host of YTV's The Zone from 2001–2007, she was called "Sugar".

Sugar Lyn Beard
Born	Stephanie Lyn Beard Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Other names	Sugar Sug Suga BayBee
Occupations	Actress radio personality
Years active	1999–present

Early life

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.^[1][2] Beard's squeaky-voiced character began appearing on KISS when Beard was 19 years old and otherwise working as a sales clerk.^[3]

Career

Her 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.^[4] She and Bustamante hosted a weekly hour-long program, Plugged In, on the Corus Entertainment website boomboxbaby.ca.^[5]

She also had a column in the youth newspaper, Brand New Planet; it was distributed with subscriptions to the Toronto Star only.^[6] In 2006, the Star put her on the long list for Children's Entertainment, when creating their Essentially Canadian Top 10 lists.^[7]

Among her works, she played the role of Susan in the 2011 film 50/50^[8] 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.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Care Bears: Journey to Joke-a-lot	Wish Bear	Voice
2005	The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie
2010	True Story. Based on Things That Never Actually Happened. ...And Some That Did	Amanda
	Not Quite College	Jessica
2011	Stag	Mary
	Darla	Loud Mouth
	50/50	Susan
2012	For a Good Time, Call...	Krissy
	Living Loaded	Maureen
2015	Aloha	Global One Volunteer
2016	Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates	Jeanie
	Sausage Party	Baby Carrots, Cookies	Voice
2017	Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie	Goodie Two-Shoes Girl
	The Disaster Artist	Actress No. 2
	Palm Swings	Allison Hughes
2018	Game Over, Man!	Herself
	The Package	Sheryl
2020	Unpregnant	Kate
	Eat Wheaties!	Carla Fisk

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Sailor Moon	Serenity "Rini" Tsukino/Sailor Mini Moon	Voice, 77 episodes (Cloverway dub)
	The Red Green Show	Kelly Cook	2 episodes (S10E1 "Sausage Envy") (S10E6 "Survivor")
2001	Pecola	Coco	Voice
	The Santa Claus Brothers	Additional Voices
2001–2007	The Zone	Herself	Host and producer
2002	Franklin	Betty Beaver	Voice, episode: "Franklin and Betty"
	Beyblade G-Revolution	Ming Ming	Voice, 8 episodes
2003	The Save-Ums!	Olena Octopus	Voice
2003–2004	The World of Piwi	Sunny, Brooklyn
2004	Cyberchase	Creech	Voice, 4 episodes
	Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends	Sweetie	Voice, episode: "Country Bug-Kin"
	Kevin Hill	Santa's Helper	Voice, episode: "Love Don't Live Here Anymore"
2005	Atomic Betty	Cadets	Voice, 2 episodes
2005–2008	Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs	Nancy the Nanosaurus	Voice, 7 episodes
2006	Sons of Butcher	Bar Girl	Voice, 3 episodes
	Captain Flamingo	Kirsten	Voice
2006–2009	Di-Gata Defenders	Kara	Voice, 34 episodes
2009	The Amazing Spiez!	Tami	Voice, 52 episodes
	King of the Hill	Unknown	Voice, episode: "Uncool Customer"
2010	Weeds	Fiona	2 episodes
2012	The Mindy Project	Claire	Episode: "Hiring and Firing"
2013	Ghost Ghirls	Becky	Episode: "Something Borrowed, Something Boo"
2014	Garfunkel and Oates	Epiphany	Episode: "Rule 34"
2015	You're the Worst	Justine	Episode: "Born Dead"
2016, 2019	Drunk History	Catharine Fox, Herself/Narrator	2 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 Rice	Voice

Radio

• Mad Dog and Billie on KISS 92.5 (2000–2001) – Suga BayBee

References

1. Goddard, Peter (December 18, 2000). "Listeners love morning KISS ; Mouse-like Suga BayBee radio voice for younger generation". Toronto Star. Retrieved July 9, 2012.
2. Barnard, Linda (January 23, 2012). "Sundance 2012: For A Good Time Call, first look at raunchy comedy". Toronto Star. Retrieved July 9, 2012.
3. 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.
4. "Country music Industry as plastic as its songs". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
5. Your Name (this will appear with your post) (November 7, 2006). "Broadband Radio Booming, Baby | Mediacaster Magazine – Broadband & Content". Mediacaster Magazine. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
6. "Sweet! Suga Baybee's in Brand New Planet (ad)". Toronto Star. Toronto ON. February 10, 2004. p. E16.
7. "Essentially Canadian: Children's Entertainment". Toronto Star. Toronto ON. June 22, 2006.
8. Cusimano, Salvatore (April 17, 2012). "50 e 50 – Recensione". ecodelcinema (in Italian). Retrieved July 9, 2012.

External links

• Sugar Lyn Beard at IMDb
• Sugar Lyn Beard on Twitter

Preceded by Tracey Hoyt	Voice of Rini/Sailor Mini Moon Eps. 96 – 159	Succeeded by Sandy Fox