Jay Roach
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Jay Roach (born 1957 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a film director and producer whose credits include the Austin Powers movies, and the hit comedies Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers starring Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller.
In 1994 he co-wrote with John Rice and Joe Batteer the film Blown Away starring Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones.
He is currently producing a movie based on Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novels.
He is married to Susanna Hoffs, of The Bangles fame.
Selected filmography
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
- Mystery, Alaska (1999)
- Meet the Parents (2000)
- Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
- Meet the Fockers (2004)
- Niagra (2004)