Patrice Goodman
Patrice Goodman is an actor, born 1989.
Sketch comedy is where Patrice Goodman's best-known work lives. The Toronto actress starred in the series Sunnyside, and she and the rest of the core cast collectively won a Canadian Screen Award for best performance in a variety or sketch comedy program at the 2016 ceremony. That show is not among the credits listed here, which makes this page a sideways view of her career.
What the credits do show is a working actor with an unusually wide spread of small, sharply defined parts across Canadian and American production. A detective in Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey. A Pilates instructor in Condor. The Queen in the rebooted Ghostwriter. Dot in The Umbrella Academy. Officer Culp in The Dogs, Monique Jenkins in Good Sam, Elle Shipley in Cracked, Cherise in RUN.
The through line is that she plays authority and irritation well, often inside a single scene, and the comic timing from the sketch years is visible even in the dramatic roles. Her credits here run from the late 1990s to 2025, a longer stretch than most performers in this guest-star lane manage.
Movies (7)
TV (10)
Where to start with Patrice Goodman
There is no single lead performance to point at here, so treat the list as a sampler. The Umbrella Academy is the most widely seen thing on it and the quickest way to see what she does with a couple of minutes of screen time.
Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey is the strongest dramatic showcase, a true-crime television film where she is investigating rather than reacting. For the comedy, Ghostwriter lets her play big for a family audience, while RUN and Good Sam show the network register. Cracked is the earliest recurring role worth chasing down. If you want the sketch work that won the award, look for Sunnyside separately.