Stephanie Beard

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name = Stephanie Beard


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birth_date = birth date and age|1980|8|27
birth_place = Scarborough, Canada
occupation = Voice actress, Actress
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website = [http://www.sugabaybee.com/ Official Sugabaybee Website]

Stephanie Beard (born August 27, 1980 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian actress, voice actress and television and radio personality. Her radio host persona goes by Suga BayBee, and as co-host of "The Zone", she was called Sugar.

From 2001 to 2007, Beard hosted "The Zone", a series of short interstitial segments aired between regular weekday programming on the Canadian children's network YTV. Her distinctive "high-pitched and squeaky" voice can be heard on a number of Japanese anime productions that have been dubbed into English, including "Sailor Moon" (Rini) [http://youtube.com/watch?v=WIJrQDjAW0M A YouTube video of Stephanie thanking her fans; she states that she did the voices of Rini, Wish Bear, and Kara] ] , "Beyblade" (Ming-Ming) and "Mirmo!" (Momo Umezono). She voiced Creech from the series of CyberChase.

She has also played Wish Bear in the most recent Care Bears movies, "" and the "Big Wish Movie".

She also plays Kara on Di-Gata Defenders, a show on Teletoon. Another movie in which she appeared is "The Santa Claus Brothers" which is frequently shown on YTV in December. Her voice is often mistaken for that of Tara Strong, who provided the voice for Bubbles in the PowerPuff Girls series and movie.

Beard's Suga BayBee was also a major character on the Mad Dog and Billie morning show formerly aired on Toronto radio station Kiss 92 FM. Her performance of "The Real Suga BayBee", a parody of Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady", became a local hit on that station. The song became popular enough that AMVs surfaced by fans and due to them Beard posted a video on YouTube to thank her many fans.

Beard made cameos in a series of Crispy Crunch television commercials in 2002 with commercial actor Christian Potenza. The slogan of the commercials ("A little different every time") was also the theme, and each commercial was slightly different from the others. Beard's only contribution, the same in each one, was holding up a record and exclaiming, "Wicked!" One of the commercials was narrated by Beard's character, but not by Beard herself. On January 19, 2007, Beard announced that she will be leaving YTV and heading for California. There, she is hoping to further herself in the entertainment business. Stephanie is an alumna of Pope John Paul II Catholic Secondary School in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.

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*imdb name|id=0063944|name=Stephanie Beard
* [http://www.sugabaybee.com Official Sugabaybee Website]
*myspace|sugabaybee