Candice Patton

Candice Patton
Patton at the 2017 PaleyFest
Education	Southern Methodist University
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2004–present
Children	1

Candice Patton is an American actress. She portrayed Iris West-Allen in the television series The Flash .

Early life

Patton was raised in Plano, Texas. ^[1] She attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, graduating with a BFA in Theatre. ^[1]

Career

In May 2004, following her first year in university, ^[2] Patton took part in CBS' Soap Star Screen Test, a nationwide audition contest for university students to win a role on the soap opera The Young and the Restless . ^[3] Patton won the contest alongside Ethan Rains. ^[4] In 2008, Patton had a starring role in The WB's web series Sorority Forever and a role in the independent film Commander and Chief. ^{[5] [6]}

Patton was cast for many television series including the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. ^[1] She portrayed Iris West in The Flash for The CW. ^[7] The role led to her appearing on other Arrowverse shows including Arrow , Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow . In the third-season episode "Duet", she played Millie Foss, the daughter of gangsters, in a dream world scenario. Her role as Iris West garnered her a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2017.

Charity work

In 2017, along with her Arrowverse co-stars Patton co-founded Shethority ("She + Authority"), an online global collective described as "a positive place for women and the feminine to inspire, empower, and share." ^[8] Active members of the initiative include Melissa Benoist, Nicole Maines, Chyler Leigh, Caity Lotz, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Tala Ashe, Emily Bett Rickards, Juliana Harkavy, Katie Cassidy and Danielle Panabaker. Through social media, women share their own stories and experiences on dealing with self-acceptance, homophobia, sexual harassment at the workplace and so on. Shethority has its own clothing line, from which all the money collected will be donated to non-profit organizations fighting for girls and women rights, such as Girls Not Brides ^[9] and Girls, Inc. . ^[10]

In May and June 2019, Patton, DC Comics Co-Publisher Jim Lee, writer Tom King, and fellow CW series actresses Nafessa Williams and Danielle Panabaker toured five U.S. military bases in Kuwait with the United Service Organizations (USO), where they visited the approximately 12,000 U.S. military personnel stationed in that country as part of DC's 80th anniversary of Batman celebration. ^[11]

Personal life

In September 2024, Patton gave birth to her first child with former pro basketball player J.R. Smith. ^[12]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
2012	Commander and Chief	Dana
2014	The Guest	Sgt. Halway

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004–2005	The Young and the Restless	Robin	5 episodes
2007	The Bold and the Beautiful	Candy	Episode dated December 6, 2007
2008	Casanovas	Actress #2	Episode: "Hollywood Heartburn"
2009	Entourage	Dan Coakley's assistant	3 episodes
	Castle	Young woman	Episode: "Inventing the Girl"
	Heroes	Olivia	2 episodes
2008–2009	Days of Our Lives	Jill / Alicia
2010	The Forgotten	Kelly	Episode: "Double Doe"
	One Tree Hill	Tanisha	2 episodes
	Grey's Anatomy	Meg Waylon	Episode: "Almost Grown"
2011	The Craigslist Killer	Kate	Television film
	Harry's Law	Denise Raines	Episode: "American Dreams"
	CSI: Miami	Wendy Gibson	Episode: "Blood Lust"
	Love Bites	Liz Beth	Episode: "Modern Plagues"
	Man Up!	Dana	3 episodes
2012	Rizzoli & Isles	Mrs. Avery	Episode: "This Is How a Heart Breaks"
2013	The Game	Tori	8 episodes
2014–2023	The Flash	Iris West-Allen [a] [b]	Main role
2017	Supergirl		Episode: "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 1"
	Arrow		Episode: "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 2"
	Legends of Tomorrow		Episode: "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 4"
2019	Batwoman		Episode: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two" [13]
2017	Whose Line Is It Anyway?	Herself	Episode 3 of season 5 (season 13 in Wikipedia terms) [14]
2020	Whose Line Is It Anyway?	Herself	Episode 6 of season 8 (season 16 in Wikipedia terms) [14]

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Sorority Forever	Mercedes Muna	21 episodes
2015	Con Man	Dr. Chu Hua substitute	2 episodes

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Role
2017	"Good Life"	Keiynan Lonsdale	Herself/Random girl

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2015	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV: Breakout Star	The Flash	Nominated	[15]
		Choice TV: Chemistry (shared with Grant Gustin)		Nominated
		Choice TV: Liplock (shared with Grant Gustin)		Nominated
2016	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV: Chemistry shared with Grant Gustin		Nominated
		Choice TV: Liplock shared with Grant Gustin		Nominated
2017	Saturn Awards	Best Supporting Actress on Television		Nominated
	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Action TV Actress		Nominated	[16]
2018	Saturn Awards	Best Supporting Actress on Television		Nominated	[17]
	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Action TV Actress		Nominated
	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV Ship		Nominated
2019	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Action TV Actress		Nominated	[18]
	Saturn Awards	Best Actress on Television		Nominated	[19]

Notes

1. Also makes appearances in The Flash as Hannibal Bates / Everyman in the episode "Who Is Harrison Wells?", Detective Iris West-Allen (Earth-2) in the episodes "Welcome to Earth-2" and "Escape from Earth-2", Millie Foss in the episode "Duet", Harrison "H. R." Wells (Earth-19) in the episodes "Infantino Street" and "Finish Line", and Mirror Iris West-Allen in 7 episodes of season 6.
2. Was going by Iris West until the episode "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 4" of the TV series Legends of Tomorrow . Also, going by the title "The Flash" in the episode "Run, Iris, Run" of The Flash .

References

1. "About". Candicepatton.com. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013.
2. Crean, Ellen (May 21, 2004). "Screen Star Votes Being Counted". CBS News . Retrieved June 24, 2018.
3. Morales, Tatiana (May 14, 2004). "'Y&R' Hunts For New Soap Star". CBS News. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
4. Morales, Tatiana (May 24, 2004). "Iman & Candice Win' Y&R' Roles". CBS News. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
5. Carr, Lauren (August 20, 2008). "The WB is back starring Plano graduate!". Plano Star Courier. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
6. "The Flash's Candice Patton claims she was mistreated on set". Digital Spy. July 8, 2022.
7. Andreeva, Nellie (March 14, 2014). "Candice Patton Cast In CW Pilot 'The Flash'". Deadline. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
8. "Shethority Twitter Page". candicepatton.com. October 2017. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
9. "Shethority International Women's Day Apparel".
10. "SHETHORITY "We Got Your Back" Collection".
11. Arrant, Chris (June 2, 2019). "JIM LEE, TOM KING, DC-CW Stars Make Surprise USO Trip To KUWAIT". Newsarama. Archived from the original on June 7, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
12. Fofana, Oumou (September 30, 2024). "J.R. Smith Welcomes New Baby With Actress Candice Patton". BET. Retrieved January 7, 2025.
13. Agard, Chancellor (November 19, 2019). "New 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' photos reveal Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved November 19, 2019.
14. Whose Line Is It Anyway? Episode Guide on Zap2it
15. "Wave 2 Nominees". Teen Choice . July 7, 2015. Archived from the original on April 11, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
16. Ceron, Ella (June 19, 2017). "Teen Choice Awards 2017: See the First Wave of Nominations". Teen Vogue . Archived from the original on June 20, 2017. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
17. McNary, Dave (March 15, 2018). "'Black Panther,' 'Walking Dead' Rule Saturn Awards Nominations". Variety . Archived from the original on March 16, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
18. Todisco, Eric (August 11, 2019). "Teen Choice Awards 2019: See the Complete List of Winners". People . Archived from the original on August 12, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2019.
19. Mancuso, Vinnie (July 16, 2019). "'Avengers: Endgame', 'Game of Thrones' Lead the 2019 Saturn Awards Nominations". Collider. Retrieved July 16, 2019.

External links

• Candice Patton at IMDb
• Candice Patton on Twitter