Patrick Roach

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Patrick Roach born March 4 1969 is a Canadian actor best known for playing the always shirtless and cheeseburgeraddicted assistant trailer park supervisor Randy on the cult television series Trailer Park Boys Roach was born in Branch a community in Newfoundland but grew up in Dartmouth Nova Scotia Randy works as deputy for park supervisor Mr Lahey with whom he shares a relationship in which among other things Lahey is largely dependent on his assistant for his daily functioning care and nurturing Roach has commented in an interview that Randy is gay though the show portrays the character as bisexual Mr Lahey and Randys relationship is similar to that seen between Mr Burns and Smithers on The Simpsons only involving more petty crime foul language roleplaying drug abuse and large amounts of alcohol For the first four years he appeared on Trailer Park Boys Roach continued to work as a regional sales manager for Sparkling Springs a bottled water company He would film Trailer Park Boys on his vacation time but in July 2004 he quit his job which he had held since 1993 in order to concentrate on acting a decision he thought was risky but worth it While not shooting the show he goes across the country with John Dunsworth Lahey at comedy clubs and other music events as a standupimprov act He also appeared on a commercial for the telephone service Vonage When asked what it was like appearing shirtless in nearly every episode Roach replied that it was uncomfortable at first but after everyone in Canada has seen you what the hell He was also in the original Trailer Park Boys short film before it was made into a series His character was the basis for Randy but was named Patrick and wore a shirt He is married to Candyce and together they have two children Rebecca and Cody who because of their young ages twelve and ten respectively as of 2010 are forbidden to watch Trailer Park Boys He currently works at Investors Group in Halifax In 2010 Roach reunited with many of his former Trailer Park Boys castmates in the new series The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Fun Time Hour Description above from the Wikipedia article Patrick Roach licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia