Joyce Van Patten is an American stage, film, and television actress, best known for portraying wry, astringent, and neurotic characters.

Broadway credits include Chayesel Fisher in The People in the Picture (Studio 54); Mrs. Miller in Taller than a Dwarf and Mary in This Rock (Longacre Theatre); Isabelle's Mother in Ring Around the Moon (Belasco Theatre); Maxine in More to Love and Steffy in I Ought to Be in Pictures (Eugene O’Neill Theatre); Edith in Jake’s Women (Neil Simon Theatre); Cookie Cusack in Rumors and Elsa in The Desk Set (Broadhurst Theatre); Blanche Morton in Brighton Beach Memoirs (Alvin Theatre); Doris in Same Time Next Year (Brooks Atkinson Theatre); Shirl in A Hole in the Head (Plymouth Theatre); Ilka Morgan in The Bees and the Flowers and Joan in The Wind Is Ninety (Booth Theatre); and Helen Williams in The Perfect Marriage and Patricia Frame in Tomorrow the World (Ethel Barrymore Theatre).