Jennifer Goodhue

JENNIFER GOODHUE

Dynamic and engaging, Jennifer Goodhue’s work combines a doe-eyed sweetness with razor sharp satire, leaving audiences with an unforgettable performance.

For over 15 years, Jen has created unique and multifaceted characters and has been praised by The Eye as possessing a “chameleon-like ability to completely reinvent herself physically from scene to scene”. Says Michael Posner of The Globe and Mail: “Blessed with a rubber body and expressive features, Goodhue’s gift is her ability to fully inhabit the ridiculous character she’s playing.” 

With her beginnings as young improviser in the Canadian Improv Games, she performed in various theatres prior to attending the Theatre program at University of Ottawa. Upon her arrival in Toronto, she naturally moved towards comedy where she co-created and performed with sketch comedy troupes, The Willies and One Inch Punch. Her character work on the improvised soap opera Sin City caught the eye of The Second City. As part of a stellar ensemble, she wrote and performed in five mainstage revues, two of which won Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Sketch Troupe and Best Sketch Show.

Aside from co-staring in her third season of CTV’s Comedy Inc., she was also one of the few females cast for The Conan O’Brian Show when taped in Toronto in 2004. Jen has appeared on Adventures in Comedy, History Bites and The Associates, and worked on various cartoons, including her role as Maki in Airmaster. In February 2004, she had an opportunity to perform with an ensemble cast of the play The Vagina Monologues. She can be seen at various live venues around Toronto and has enjoyed performing at many Improv and sketch shows including Eclectic Circus, Catch 23, Sketch.com, Sunday Night Live at the Poor Alex, The UH – O.C. and Grrlz Night at Bad Dog Theatre.

Jen loves to talk about herself and is happy this bio has given her the opportunity to do so.