Jay Roach

Jay Roach

1957-06-14 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 37 Credits

Biography

Mathew Jay Roach (born June 14, 1957) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the Austin Powers film series, Meet the Parents, Dinner for Schmucks, The Campaign, Trumbo, and Bombshell. Roach also earned critical acclaim for directing and producing the political television drama films Recount, Game Change, and All the Way. He produced the films under his Everyman Pictures banner. He has received four Primetime Emmy Awards from six nominations for his work. Description above fro...

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Meet the Parents 4

Meet the Parents 4

2026

Producer

Producing

The fourth installment in the franchise. Plot TBA.

The Roses

The Roses

2025

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed i...

Coastal Elites

Coastal Elites

2020

Executive Producer, Director

5.9
Producing Directing

A socially distanced comedic satire that spotlights five characters breaking down and breaking through as they grapple with politics, culture, and the...

Bombshell

Bombshell

2019

Director, Producer

6.8
Directing Producing

Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought do...

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

2017

Producer

6.2
Producing

The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.

All the Way

All the Way

2016

Director, Executive Producer

6.7
Directing Producing

Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his...

Grimsby

Grimsby

2016

Thanks

6.0

Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plo...

Sisters

Sisters

2015

Producer

6.0
Producing

Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.

Trumbo

Trumbo

2015

Producer, Director

7.2
Producing Directing

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklist...

The Campaign

The Campaign

2012

Director, Producer

5.8
Directing Producing

Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Represen...

The Dictator

The Dictator

2012

Thanks

6.2

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

Game Change

Game Change

2012

Director, Executive Producer

6.9
Directing Producing

During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his r...

Little Fockers

Little Fockers

2010

Producer

5.7
Producing

It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. A...

Dinner for Schmucks

Dinner for Schmucks

2010

Director, Producer

5.7
Directing Producing

Rising executive Tim Conrad works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim pla...

Brüno

Brüno

2009

Producer

5.6
Producing

Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and p...

Smother

Smother

2008

Producer

5.0
Producing

After he's fired from his job, an everyday guy faces pressure from his wife to have a baby and from his mom, who has decided to move in with the young...

Recount

Recount

2008

Director, Executive Producer

6.8
Directing Producing

In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging cha...

Charlie Bartlett

Charlie Bartlett

2008

Producer

6.7
Producing

Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find ...

Monty Python Conquers America

Monty Python Conquers America

2008

as Self

6.5
Acting

This documentary follows the evolution of the British sketch comedy troupe that redefined humor and shaped an entire generation of American comics, fo...

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

2006

Producer

6.8
Producing

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations...

Earth to America

Earth to America

2005

Director

8.0
Directing

Tom Hanks is the host of this show with a comic approach to raise awareness concerning the environment.

Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

2005

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2005

Producer

6.7
Producing

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a res...

Meet the Fockers

Meet the Fockers

2004

Producer, Director

6.3
Producing Directing

Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet the parents of their son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focke...

50 First Dates

50 First Dates

2004

Executive Producer

6.9
Producing

Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he rea...

Austin Powers in Goldmember

Austin Powers in Goldmember

2002

Director

6.0
Directing

The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foe—...

Meet the Parents

Meet the Parents

2000

Director, Producer

6.7
Directing Producing

Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent...

Mystery, Alaska

Mystery, Alaska

1999

Director

6.3
Directing

In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpecte...

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

1999

Director

6.3
Directing

When diabolical genius Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo,’ Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself - with ...

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

1997

Director

6.6
Directing

As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop me...

Sound of Peace

1997

Cinematography

1.0

"Sound of Peace" is a cinematic meditation. Utilizing the deep resonance of the didgeridoo played by Nawang Khechong, a former Buddhist Monk the film ...

Blown Away

Blown Away

1994

Associate Producer, Story

6.2
Producing Writing

Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove, who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force, his partner is killed by a bomb th...

Lifepod

Lifepod

1993

Writer

5.1
Writing

Lifepod cronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship they were traveling on blew up on Christmas Eve. Immediately people start dying. The pas...

Zoo Radio

Zoo Radio

1991

Director

3.7
Directing

Under the terms of their father's will, rival radio station managers Burt and John Powell must compete with each other for their inheritance. Burt's K...

Tales of the Unknown

Tales of the Unknown

1990

Director of Photography

Directing

Somewhere, just beyond your doorstep, lies the unforeseen, the unexpected, the unexplainable... A shadowy world where curiosity and intrigue tempt you...

Odyssey

1986

Cinematography

The film is a visual poem shot in the Anza-Borrego Desert. The work portrays the odyssey of a woman/goddess/mankind from birth into innocence, through...

Untitled Ocean's Eleven Prequel

N/A

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Set during the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix, the film follows the couple as they teach their children how to steal from the rich.