Bay Abbey

Bay Abbey was born in Brighton, Australia to Ronald and Fortune Abeydeera. His mother Fortune was an entertainer who had traveled the world as a cabaret artist and his father was a Bank Manager. He is of Sri Lankan heritage but mixed with Dutch, Portuguese and German descent. Bay was born Stefan Jason Abeydeera but changed his name later in life as people could never get his surname correct when spelling it and he wanted a easy to remember name for his entertaining. Bay was raised along with his only sister Yasmine who is 11 years his junior and a singer. He shared his childhood with his parents, sister and grandparents who lived with him and had a high influence on his life especially his grandfather Edward. His parents wanting him to defend himself when he was older started him at Judo at the age of 5 and then Tae Kwon Do at 11 where he went on to obtain his black belt. Loving the movement of the human body Bay took up lifting weights and then bodybuilding at 17 and completed his high school certificate this same year. He was accepted into Latrobe University to study Biological Sciences where he stayed for 1 year until he joined the Victorian Police Force in 1989. During his 6 years in the force he started his first band called Wild Knights; and started taking extra roles in film and television often as a police officer. Wanting to get a crash course in acting he starting taking any course he could to harness his acting skills. He attended the National Theatre in St.Kilda, Australia and well as studying method acting. Australia not having a lot of parts for his ethnicity he joined an acting agency that dealt with multicultural people. During this period he was touring around the cabaret circuit and a singer, actor, dancer and booked a small part in the television movie The Diamond of Jeru, with Billy Zane in 2001. Continually singing to make his money he then auditioned for The Quiet American, with Brendan Fraser and got a small part but it was unfortunately dropped from the film script before being filmed. He then continued getting television work in Stingers (1999, 2003) and Neighbours (2006) as well as being cast in two of Jonathon Shiff productions, Scooter Secret Agent ( 2005) and Pirate Island (2007). In 2007 he also was billed as a co star in the feature film Lords of the Underworld filmed in L.A.