10 Facts About Roy Lee

Roy Lee was born on March 23,1969 and is an American film and television producer.

Roy Lee joined forces with Johnsen and Glenn Gregory of Propaganda Films to convert their daily phone calls into an online tracking group.

In 1997 Roy Lee set up an Internet bulletin board called Tracker for twenty of his friends, who rated scripts and posted pertinent tracker information for each.

In 1999, Roy Lee went to work with BenderSpink, a talent-management company owned by two of his friends, Chris Bender and JC Spink.

Roy Lee was charged with finding Internet content: short films that would play on PCs.

When working on a project together, Roy Lee did the selling and Davison handled the follow-up work.

Roy Lee noted that in the beginning, the hardest thing was making contacts abroad.

Once Roy Lee had secured the right to negotiate for an Asian company, he told the studios to regard the film as a script that someone had taken the trouble to film, and that had been tested and proved a hit in its home country.

Roy Lee earned his first motion picture producing credit on Gore Verbinski's 2002 blockbuster The Ring.

Roy Lee went on to produce the 2004 haunted house horror film The Grudge, which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar and was based on the 2002 Japanese film Ju-on: The Grudge, which was directed by Takashi Shimizu.