Patricia Belcher

• Name — Patricia Belcher • Birthplace — Helena, Montana, U.S. • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1989–present

Born in Helena, Montana, Belcher is of African-American descent. Prior to becoming an actress, Belcher was a contestant on Jeopardy! losing to then attorney Ron Black in one of his five games. Belcher is known for playing judges, doctors, nurses, government officials, and other authority figures, often to comic effect. She has made many appearances in films and television series including The Number 23, Unknown, Jeepers Creepers, Heartbreakers and (500) Days of Summer. She made appearances in television series, including The Norm Show (on which she had a recurring role), The Hughleys (on which she had a recurring role), Everybody Loves Raymond, Boston Legal, The Jake Effect, Twins, The Proud Family, Seinfeld, Sister, Sister, In Plain Sight, The Middle, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Still Sitting down, Beverly Hills, 90210, and How to Get Away with Murder. In 2001, Belcher was cast as Jezelle Gay Hartman, a psychic, in the horror film Jeepers Creepers. The film was a commercial success, making a total of $59,217,789 worldwide. From 2006 until 2017, she recurred on Bones as attorney Caroline Julian. In 2009, she played Millie in the romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer. The film was a box office success earning over $60 million worldwide returns, far exceeding its $7.5 million budget. Also that year through 2010, she had a recurring role on Better Off Ted as Janet S. Crotum, the head of human resources of Veridian Dynamics. On May 13, 2010, ABC canceled the series due to low viewing figures. After the cancellation of Better Off Ted Belcher moved on and began another recurring role on the Disney Channel sitcom Good Luck Charlie, playing neighbor Estelle Dabney. It ran for four seasons ending in 2014. In 2013, she appeared as Ingrid in Bad Words, and she voiced Chimamanda Lobo in the video game Dead Island: Riptide. Later that year Belcher again teamed with Jeepers Creepers writer and director Victor Salva for his horror film Dark House. In 2022, she made a brief appearance in the film Father Stu playing the role of a meat and seafood grocery store clerk. She also began recurring on another Disney Channel sitcom, The Villains of Valley View.

• Year — TV — Role — Notes • 1991 — Beverly Hills, 90210 — Nun — Episode: "A Walsh Family Christmas" • 1992 — Who's the Boss? — Nurse — Episode: "Allergic to Love" • Reasonable Doubts — Vivian Morgan — Episode: "Mercury in Retrograde" • 1993 — Civil Wars — Jury Foreperson — Episode: "Alien Aided Affection" • Sisters — Receptionist — Episode: "Different" • Homefront — Customer #2 — Episode: "The Lacemakers" • NYPD Blue — Detective — Episode: "Brown Appetit" • 1994 — Thea — Mrs. Brown — Episode: "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow" • Seinfeld — Woman #1 — Episode: "The Pie" • Dream On — Nurse — Episode: "A Face Worse Than Death" • 1995 — Cybill — Nurse — Episode: "As the World Turns to Crap" • Martin — Inez — Episode: "Wedding Bell Blues" • Coach — Neighbor #1 — Episode: "Is It Hot in Here, or Is It Me?: Part 2" • ER — Ward Nurse — Episode: "What Life?" • Step by Step — Mrs. Sawyer — Episode: "Hello, Mister Chips" • 1996 — Murder One — Mrs. Harris — Episode: "Chapter Eleven" • Touched by an Angel — Ms. Raphael — Episode: "Dear God" • Life's Work — Gloria — Episode: "Pilot" • Married... with Children — Eunetta — Episode: "A Bundy Thanksgiving" • Sister, Sister — Selma — Episode: "When a Man Loves Two Women" • 1997 — The Single Guy — Newsweek Interviewer — Episode: "Starting Over" • The Practice — The Foreperson — Episode: "Pilot" • Everybody Loves Raymond — Ruth — Episode: "Neighbors" • Good News — Lorraine Hudson — Episode: "Pilot" • Brooklyn South — Regina Hopkins — Episode: "Pilot" • Living Single — Florence Jacobs — Episode: "Mother Inferior" & "Reconcilable Differences" • Chicago Hope — Stephanie Plummer — Episode: "White Trash" • Players — Tante Florence — Episode: "Three of a Con" • The Parent 'Hood — Principal Bobbit/Judge — Episode: "When Robert Met Jerri" & "House Arrest" • Sparks — Judge Carol Barlow — Episode: "Silent Night" • 1997– 1998 — Sister, Sister — Councilwoman Martha Hicks — Guest: season 5, recurring cast: season 6 • 1998– 1999 — Tracey Takes On... — Ida — Recurring cast: season 3, guest: season 4 • 1998– 2000 — The Hughleys — Jessie Mae — Recurring cast: season 1-2, guest: season 3 • 1999 — Maggie Winters — Ruth — Episode: "Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut" • Rude Awakening — Dr. Lloyd — Episode: "The Grateful Living" • The Drew Carey Show — Judge Holloway — Episode: "Drew and the Gang Law" • The Parent 'Hood — Mrs. Griffith — Episode: "Wedding Bells Blues" • 1999– 2001 — The Norm Show — Landlady — Recurring cast: season 2-3 • 2000– 2001 — The Trouble with Normal — Lila — Recurring cast • 2001 — Sabrina, the Teenage Witch — Professor Hutchins — Episode: "Do You See What I See?" • The Practice — Candace Levy — Episode: "The Candidate" • Family Law — Judge Wilhelmina Chais — Episode: "Sex, Lies, and Internet" • 2001– 2002 — One on One — Dr. Gilkes — Recurring cast: season 1 • 2002 — Yes, Dear — Bernice — Episode: "You're Out... of Dreams" • Girlfriends — Ola — Episode: "Willie or Won't He II: The Last Chapter?" • Leap of Faith — Nurse #2 — Episode: "The Baby Snugglers" • Ally McBeal — Marsha Forrester — Episode: "Love Is All Around: Part 2" • 2002– 2003 — Andy Richter Controls the Universe — Ms. Machado — Episode: "We're All The Same, Only Different" & "Duh Dog" • 2002– 2004 — Still Standing — Miss Wanda Bodin — Recurring cast: season 1, guest: season 2 • 2003 — The Proud Family — Ms. Hightower (voice) — Recurring cast: season 2 • 2004 — Malcolm in the Middle — Dr. Lucille Armstrong — Episode: "Reese's Apartment" • Without a Trace — Georgia Reston — Episode: "Upstairs Downstairs" • 2004– 2007 — Boston Legal — Judge Leslie Bishop — Guest Cast: season 1-2 & 4 • 2005 — Close to Home — Judge Riker — Episode: "Suburban Prostitution" & "Double Life Wife" • Hot Properties — Nurse Gracie — Episode: "Killer Bodies" • 2005– 2006 — Twins — Dolly — Recurring cast • 2006 — My Name Is Earl — Receptionist — Episode: "Stole P's HD Cart" • Rodney — Renette — Episode: "A Tisket, a Casket" • The Jake Effect — Vice Principal Curtis — Main cast • How I Met Your Mother — Receptionist — Episode: "Atlantic City" • 2006– 2017 — Bones — Caroline Julian — Guest: season 1, recurring cast: season 2-12, 55 episodes • 2007 — The Loop — Pat Swanson — Episode: "Stride" • Weeds — Miriam Walters — Episode: "The Brick Dance" • 2008 — Las Vegas — Thelma Cannon — Episode: "Three Weddings and a Funeral: Part 2" • Out of Jimmy's Head — Lunchlady Edna — Episode: "Lunch Tables" • The Cleaner — Sister Alma — Episode: "Rag Dolls" • Cold Case — Margaret Trudlow '08 — Episode: "True Calling" • 2009 — United States of Tara — Gloria — Episode: "Snow" • According to Jim — Mrs. Kretzer — Episode: "I Hate the High Road" • Community — Cafeteria Lady — Episode: "Pilot" • The Middle — Mrs. Rettig — Episode: "Pilot" • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia — Judge Fishburn — Episode: "The World Series Defense" • 2009– 2010 — Better Off Ted — Janet S. Crotum — Recurring • 2010– 2014 — Good Luck Charlie — Mrs. Estelle Dabney — Recurring; 24 episodes • 2011 — In Plain Sight — Mrs. Anders — Episode: "Girls, Interrupted" & "A Womb with a View" • 2012 — Emily Owens M.D. — Dolores — Episode: "Emily and... the Question of Faith" • 2014 — The Millers — Sunni — Episode: "Cancellation Fee" • Partners — Judge Reiss — Episode: "Paralegal Activity" • 2015 — Mike & Molly — Rose — Episode: "Molly's Neverending Story" • I Didn't Do It — Candy — Episode: "The Doctor Is In" • 2016 — How to Get Away with Murder — Corrine Stefano — Episode: "She Hates Us" • 2017 — Santa Clarita Diet — Roberta — Episode: "So Then a Bat or a Monkey" • Trial & Error — Judge Horsedich — Recurring: season 1 • Mom — Gloria — Episode: "An Epi-Pen and a Security Cat" • 2017– 2018 — The Guest Book — Bernice — Episode: "Story Six" & "Counting Problems" • 2018 — Code Black — Gloria — Episode: "Home Stays Home" • Forever — Ellen — Episode: "June" • 2018– 2019 — Teachers — Mavis — Recurring: season 3 • 2018– 2021 — A.P. Bio — Superintendent — Guest: season 1-2 & 4 • 2019 — No Good Nick — Ingrid — Episode: "The Man in the Middle Attack" • Young Sheldon — Clara — Episode: "An Entrepreneurialist and a Swat on the Bottom" • Will & Grace — Ellie — Episode: "Eat, Pray, Love, Phone, Sex" • 2020 — Single Parents — Vice Principal Sara Yarble — Episode: "Welcome to Hilltop!" • 911 — The Wallaces' Neighbor — Episode: "Fools" • American Dad! — Citizenship and Immigration Services Clerk (voice) — Episode: "One Fish, Two Fish" • 2021 — The Neighborhood — Sister Sabrina — Episode: "Welcome to the Turnaround" • Lucifer — Loretta — Episode: "A Lot Dirtier Than That" • The Rookie — Mrs. Crouch — Episode: "A.C.H." • 2022–2023 — The Villains of Valley View — Celia — Recurring; 23 episodes • 2022 — Bob Hearts Abishola — Esther — Episode: "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" & "Who Raised You" • That Girl Lay Lay — Grandma Flo — Episode: "Fami-Lay-Lay-Reunion" • Call Me Kat — Barbara — Episode: "Call Me Thor" • 2022–present — The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder — Principal Hightower (voice) — Recurring • 2024–present — Matlock — Mrs. Belvin "Mrs. B" — Recurring • 2025 — Eyes of Wakanda — Akeya (voice) — Episode: "Into the Lion's Den"

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2013 — Dead Island: Riptide — Chimamanda — Uncredited Voice Role