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Jay Roach is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Thanks American born on 14 june 1957 at Albuquerque (USA)

Jay Roach

Jay Roach
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Birth name Matthew Jay Roach
Nationality USA
Birth 14 june 1957 (66 years) at Albuquerque (USA)
Awards Primetime Emmy Award

Matthew Jay Roach (born June 14, 1957) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter, best known for directing the Austin Powers films and Meet the Parents.

Biography

Carrière
Son premier succès sera la comédie Austin Powers réalisée en 1997 parodiant James Bond ; le film sera servi par Mike Myers et Elizabeth Hurley.

Il sera d'un très bon succès commercial qui donnera lieu à deux suites.

En 1999, il revient avec le second opus de la série à succès Austin Powers 2 : L'Espion qui m'a tirée ; toujours avec le même succès, le film reprend « là où nous avions laissé Austin » dans le premier. Heather Graham sera cette fois au rendez-vous.

Toujours en 1999, Jay Roach réalise Mystery, Alaska qui aura un petit succès ; le film se passe en Alaska dans la petite ville de Mystery.

En 2000, il revient avec une grosse comédie à succès, Mon beau-père et moi, au casting hollywoodien composé de Robert De Niro et Ben Stiller.

À partir de la fin des années 2000, Jay Roach se spécialise dans les téléfilms HBO de qualité, en prime-time, très souvent bien reçus par la critique et récompensés aux Primetime Emmy Awards. Tous sont liés à la politique américaine :


Recount, sur le crucial recompte de l'état de Floride, décisif pour l'élection présidentielle américaine de 2000 entre Al Gore et George W. Bush
Game Change, sur Sarah Palin, colister de John McCain pour l'élection présidentielle américaine de 2008
All the Way, sur le président Lyndon B. Johnson, incarné par Bryan Cranston.
Cela peut se cumuler avec les films Moi, député et Trumbo, centrés sur la politique.


Vie privée
Depuis 1993, il est l'époux de Susanna Hoffs, chanteuse des Bangles. Ils ont deux fils, Jackson (né en 1995) et Sam (né en 1998).

Best films

Meet the Fockers
Meet the Fockers
(2004)
(Director) Meet the Parents
Meet the Parents
(2000)
(Director) Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
(1999)
(Director) Little Fockers
Little Fockers
(2010)
(Producer) Austin Powers in Goldmember
Austin Powers in Goldmember
(2002)
(Director) 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)

Usually with

Jon Poll
Jon Poll
(10 films)
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen
(5 films)
Theodore Shapiro
Theodore Shapiro
(5 films)
Mike Myers
Mike Myers
(4 films)
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jay Roach (27 films)

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Producer

50 First Dates
50 First Dates (2004)
, 1h39
Directed by Peter Segal
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin, Lusia Strus, Blake Clark
Roles Executive Producer
Rating68% 3.4008753.4008753.4008753.4008753.400875
Henry Roth is a veterinarian at Sea Life Park on the island of Oahu who has a reputation of womanizing female tourists. He shows no interest in committing to a serious relationship and his closest friends are Ula, a marijuana-smoking Islander; his assistant Alexa, whose sexuality and gender is unclear; Willy, his pet African penguin and Jocko, a walrus.
Meet the Fockers
Meet the Fockers (2004)
, 1h50
Directed by Jay Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner, Theresa Polo
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.14923.14923.14923.14923.1492
Gaylord "Greg" Focker (Ben Stiller) and his fiancée Pam Byrnes (Polo) decide to introduce their parents to each other. They first fly to Oyster Bay, New York, on Long Island, to pick up Pam's father, retired CIA operative Jack Byrnes (De Niro), her mother Dina (Danner) and one-year-old nephew Little Jack. But rather than going to the airport as planned, Jack decides to drive the family to Miami to meet the Fockers in his new RV.
Meet the Parents
Meet the Parents (2000)
, 1h48
Directed by Jay Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about religion
Actors Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, Theresa Polo, James Rebhorn, Jon Abrahams
Roles Producer
Rating69% 3.497433.497433.497433.497433.49743
Gaylord "Greg" Focker (Ben Stiller) is a nurse living in Chicago, who intends to propose to his girlfriend Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo), a schoolteacher. His plan is disrupted when Pam's sister Debbie becomes engaged and he finds out that Debbie's fiance, Dr. Robert "Bob" Banks had asked Pam's father for permission before proposing. Greg and Pam travel to Pam's parents' house in Oyster Bay, Long Island to attend the wedding. Greg hopes to propose to Pam in front of her family after receiving her father's permission, but this plan is put on hold when the airline loses his luggage, including the engagement ring.
The Empty Mirror
The Empty Mirror (1996)
, 1h58
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Norman Rodway, Joel Grey, Peter Michael Goetz, Glenn Shadix
Roles Producer
Rating57% 2.856092.856092.856092.856092.85609
The film is a fantastical journey through the looking-glass of history into the darkest recesses of the mind of Adolf Hitler. In a dreamlike subterranean environment removed from historical time, Adolf Hitler (Norman Rodway) confronts the demons of his own psyche. As he dictates his memoirs, Hitler encounters apparitions of his confidant, Joseph Goebbels (Joel Grey); his enigmatic mistress, Eva Braun (Camilla Soeberg); Hermann Göring (Glenn Shadix); Sigmund Freud (Peter Michael Goetz); and the mysterious Woman in Black (Hope Allen).
Blown Away
Blown Away (1994)
, 2h1
Directed by Stephen Hopkins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Political films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Forest Whitaker, Lloyd Bridges, John Finn
Roles Associate Producer
Rating61% 3.0999653.0999653.0999653.0999653.099965
Irish terrorist Ryan Gaerity (Tommy Lee Jones) escapes from his cell in a castle prison in Northern Ireland, killing a guard and his cellmate in the process, after turning a toilet into a bomb.

Team

Grimsby
Grimsby (2016)
, 1h23
Directed by Louis Leterrier
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Sports films
Actors Mark Strong, Sacha Baron Cohen, Rebel Wilson, Isla Fisher, Annabelle Wallis, Ian McShane
Roles Thanks
Rating61% 3.0974853.0974853.0974853.0974853.097485
Grimsby involves a British black-ops spy (Mark Strong) whose idiotic brother (Sacha Baron Cohen) is a football hooligan.
The Dictator
The Dictator (2012)
, 1h23
Directed by Larry Charles
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa, Monde imaginaire, Political films
Actors Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, Aasif Mandvi, John C. Reilly, Chris Gethard
Roles Thanks
Rating63% 3.1982353.1982353.1982353.1982353.198235
For years, the Republic of Wadiya (located in the Horn of Africa, supplanting the actual nation of Eritrea) has been ruled by Admiral General Haffaz Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen), a childish, tyrannical, sexist, anti-western, and antisemitic despot who surrounds himself with female bodyguards, sponsors al-Qaeda (specially giving shelter to Osama Bin Laden after "they killed his double one year ago") and is working on developing nuclear weapons to attack Israel. He also refused to sell Wadiya's oil fields, a promise he made to his father on his deathbed. After the United Nations Security Council resolves to intervene militarily, Aladeen travels to the UN Headquarters in New York to address the council.