- Born
- Birth nameSydney Rachael ter Avest
- Nickname
- Syd
- Height5′ 5½″ (1.66 m)
- Sydney lives in North Carolina with her parents Jerry and Julie and her sister Alex who is also an actress. The rest of Sydney's family reside in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Sydney's Dutch last name comes from her grandparents who immigrated to the USA in 1950 from The Netherlands. Sydney's father Jerry is first generation born in the USA. The family still uses the lower case "ter" at the beginning of their last name.
Sydney's Uncle Mike (Michael M. Dunn) passed away after having AIDS for 8 years in 2001.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- Her father is a dentist.
- She will remain six years old forever, as she has a full-body statue in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, in the exhibit "America on the Move" in the Museum of American History. Her statue greets you at the beginning of the exhibit--she is a child of 1876 at a train depot seeing a train for the very first time with her parents.
- Her favorite role in a musical is when she was nine years old and played "The Ghost of Christmas Past" in the Ira David Wood III production of "A Christmas Carol".
- Won a Cheyenne Kimball lookalike contest in 2006.
- She was selected to sing the "National Anthem" for the Durham Bulls in the 2006 and 2007 seasons.
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