Bif Naked. Mr. Skin doesn’t even know where to begin with this truly awesome name. So he’ll let Bif herself do the honors, via her website: “Orphaned in India, emancipated by punk rock, and empowered by surviving breast cancer, kindey failure, heart surgery, divorce, and surviving as a woman in the entertainment industry for more than 25 years.” In other words, a total badass. She was adopted and moved to Canada, where she’s spent most of her life as a singer and an actress. Known for her tattoos, boldness, and optimism, she’s released more than ten studio albums, has toured with Billy Idol, and started her own record label, Her Royal Majesty’s. Her songs have appeared in Hollywood projects like the film Anywhere But Here (1999) with Natalie Portman, and series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Roswell, and Birds of Prey. Bif, aka Beth Tolbert, indulged in a little nudity as Natasha in the Hong Kong and Canadian movie Lunch With Charles (2001), splashing in a river with her bare breasts and rear end out and proud. On American TV, you can catch her actual self (not just her voice on the soundtrack) as the singer in the band in a 1999 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as Cynthia in the “Light My Fire” 2006 episode of The L Word, and as a version of herself in the Canada/US TV movie Best Actress (2000) with Jaime Pressley and Rachel Hunter. Continuing in the “I have many talents” category, she wrote her own book of memoirs, I, Bificus in 2016, which became a Canadian best-seller; has a book of poetry and cartoons on the docket, and one on the health-care system in Canada; and launched a hemp-based CBD oil company. A Bif by any other name would still be as powerful.
