# Patrick Roach
**Patrick Roach** is a Canadian actor best known for playing Randy, the perpetually shirtless, cheeseburger-loving assistant trailer park supervisor on the mockumentary series *Trailer Park Boys*, a role he has played since the series began in 2001.
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1200571/) |
| Signature role | Randy BoBandy, assistant trailer park supervisor at Sunnyvale Trailer Park, on *Trailer Park Boys* (2001 onward)[2](https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/trailer-park-boys/cast/1000101069/) |
| Other career | Regional sales manager for Sparkling Springs bottled water during his first four years on the show; quit in 2004 to act full time[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1200571/) |
| Film work | *Trailer Park Boys: The Movie* (2006), *Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys* (2008), *SwearNet: The Movie* (2014) as Swearman[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1200571/) • [3](https://www.swearnetthemovie.com/images/downloads/press-kit-materials.pdf) |
| Live show | Randy's Cheeseburger Picnic, a stand-up comedy show created after John Dunsworth's death in 2017[4](https://yorkdurhamheadwaters.ca/trailer-park-boys-patrick-roach-a-k-a-randy-and-fish-tvs-ron-james-come-to-ydh/) |
| Later roles | Randy in *Trailer Park Boys: The Animated Series*, *Trailer Park Boys: JAIL* (2021), *Randy's Reach* (2023) and *Gettin' Cooked with Ricky* (2025)[5](https://www.tvmaze.com/people/38949/patrick-roach) |
| Family | Married to Candice Roach; two children, Rebecca and Cody[6](https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/patrick-roach.html) |
## The role of Randy
Randy is the assistant and romantic partner of [Jim Lahey](https://www.edgepedia.org/jim-lahey), the supervisor of the Sunnyvale Trailer Park in [Dartmouth, Nova Scotia](https://www.edgepedia.org/dartmouth-nova-scotia), in the Canadian mockumentary *Trailer Park Boys*, which follows residents Ricky, Julian, and [Bubbles](https://www.edgepedia.org/bubbles-trailer-park-boys) as they pursue petty schemes while dodging the police.[7](https://bi.org/en/bi-characters/randy/) • [8](https://www.lehighvalleypublicmedia.org/news/entertainment/its-fierce-trailer-park-boys-actor-to-bring-his-character-more-to-northampton-show/) The character is defined by his constant shirtlessness and his addiction to cheeseburgers; Roach's character answers accusations of selling himself for cheeseburgers with the line "A man's gotta eat, Julian."[7](https://bi.org/en/bi-characters/randy/) • [9](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290988/characters/nm1200571)
The show debuted on the Canadian cable network Showcase in 2001, where it ran for eight seasons, and moved to Netflix in 2014, with production continuing through 2018.[8](https://www.lehighvalleypublicmedia.org/news/entertainment/its-fierce-trailer-park-boys-actor-to-bring-his-character-more-to-northampton-show/) Roach's Randy appears throughout the franchise's expansions, including *Trailer Park Boys: The Animated Series*, *Trailer Park Boys: JAIL*, and the series *Randy's Reach* (2023).[5](https://www.tvmaze.com/people/38949/patrick-roach)
Roach arrived at the role unusually. He appeared in the original *Trailer Park Boys* short film, made before the series was picked up, playing a character named Patrick, the basis for Randy, who wore a shirt.[4](https://yorkdurhamheadwaters.ca/trailer-park-boys-patrick-roach-a-k-a-randy-and-fish-tvs-ron-james-come-to-ydh/) In that 1999 film his character was named Patrick Lewis, an alcoholic with a dog that the boys were paid to kill; a snippet of the film's ending is recycled as the opening scene of the series' first episode.[10](https://trailerpark.fandom.com/wiki/Patrick_Roach)
## Life outside the show
**A day job came first.** For the first four years of his involvement with *Trailer Park Boys*, Roach worked full time as a regional sales manager for Sparkling Springs, a bottled water company based in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, using vacation time to film his scenes; he quit the job in 2004 to focus on acting.[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1200571/) He grew up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and from 2019 to 2023 worked as a personal finance consultant.[4](https://yorkdurhamheadwaters.ca/trailer-park-boys-patrick-roach-a-k-a-randy-and-fish-tvs-ron-james-come-to-ydh/)
Between shoots he performed stand-up and improv across Canada with [John Dunsworth](https://www.edgepedia.org/john-dunsworth), his on-screen partner as Mr. Lahey, in comedy clubs and at music events.[4](https://yorkdurhamheadwaters.ca/trailer-park-boys-patrick-roach-a-k-a-randy-and-fish-tvs-ron-james-come-to-ydh/) After Dunsworth died in 2017, Roach created Randy's Cheeseburger Picnic, a live stand-up show in which he appears as Randy, tells jokes, sings songs, and plays cheeseburger games with the audience; the show has toured venues in Canada and the United States.[4](https://yorkdurhamheadwaters.ca/trailer-park-boys-patrick-roach-a-k-a-randy-and-fish-tvs-ron-james-come-to-ydh/) • [8](https://www.lehighvalleypublicmedia.org/news/entertainment/its-fierce-trailer-park-boys-actor-to-bring-his-character-more-to-northampton-show/) • [11](https://meridiansource.ca/2023/10/26/bobandy-brings-picnic-to-border-city/)
## SwearNet and later projects
In *SwearNet: The Movie* (2014), Roach played himself alongside [Robb Wells](https://www.edgepedia.org/robb-wells), John Paul Tremblay, and Mike Smith, who were launching a real subscription website of the same name, and he also played Swearman, the mascot of the new network.[3](https://www.swearnetthemovie.com/images/downloads/press-kit-materials.pdf) In the 2024 feature *Trailer Park Boys: Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties*, centered on Bubbles forming his own band, Randy is enlisted as a roadie.[8](https://www.lehighvalleypublicmedia.org/news/entertainment/its-fierce-trailer-park-boys-actor-to-bring-his-character-more-to-northampton-show/) He continued in the role in the cooking series *Gettin' Cooked with Ricky* in 2025.[5](https://www.tvmaze.com/people/38949/patrick-roach)
## References
1. [Patrick Roach, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1200571/)
2. [Trailer Park Boys, Full Cast & Crew, TV Guide](https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/trailer-park-boys/cast/1000101069/)
3. [SwearNet Production Notes, SwearNet the Movie press kit](https://www.swearnetthemovie.com/images/downloads/press-kit-materials.pdf)
4. [Patrick Roach: Trailer Park Boys' "Randy", York Durham Headwaters](https://yorkdurhamheadwaters.ca/trailer-park-boys-patrick-roach-a-k-a-randy-and-fish-tvs-ron-james-come-to-ydh/)
5. [Patrick Roach, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/people/38949/patrick-roach)
6. [Patrick Roach, Famous Birthdays](https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/patrick-roach.html)
7. [Randy, Bi.org character profile](https://bi.org/en/bi-characters/randy/)
8. ['It's fierce': 'Trailer Park Boys' actor to bring his character, more to Northampton show, Lehigh Valley Public Media](https://www.lehighvalleypublicmedia.org/news/entertainment/its-fierce-trailer-park-boys-actor-to-bring-his-character-more-to-northampton-show/)
9. [Patrick Roach as Randy, Trailer Park Boys character page, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290988/characters/nm1200571)
10. [Patrick Roach, Trailer Park Wiki (Fandom)](https://trailerpark.fandom.com/wiki/Patrick_Roach)
11. [Bobandy brings picnic to Border City, Meridian Source](https://meridiansource.ca/2023/10/26/bobandy-brings-picnic-to-border-city/)
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