Louis Theroux
Actor
- Born
- May 20, 1970 (age 56) · Singapore
Louis Sebastian Theroux (/ˈlu.i θə.ˈru/ LOO-ee thə-ROO; born 20 May 1970) is a British-American journalist, broadcaster, and author. He has received three British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award.
After graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, Theroux moved to the United States and worked as a journalist for Metro Silicon Valley and Spy. He moved into television as the presenter of offbeat segments on Michael Moore's TV Nation series.
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Theroux is known for his numerous documentaries with the BBC, beginning with Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (1998–2000), followed by When Louis Met... (2000–2002) and 50 BBC Two specials (2003–present). His work includes studies of unusual and taboo subcultures, crime and the justice system, and celebrities. The majority of his documentaries are set in the United States, but he has also studied cultures in South Africa, Israel, Nigeria, and the UK. The New Yorker described Theroux's work as "a piercingly humane, slyly funny guide through the funkier passages of American culture".
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Known for
My Scientology Movie
May 5, 2016
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
March 10, 2026
Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
April 24, 2007
Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis
August 14, 2011
Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles
April 19, 2009
Louis Theroux: Louis and the Nazis
December 21, 2003
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
April 27, 2025
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars
June 10, 2012
Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids
April 18, 2010
Louis Theroux: Behind Bars
January 13, 2008
Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists
February 3, 2011
Louis Theroux: Savile
October 2, 2016
Acting39
- 2026David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth as Self
- 2026Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere as Self
- 2025Together for Palestine as Self
- 2025Louis Theroux: The Settlers as Self
- 2021Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic as Self
- 2020Louis Theroux: Selling Sex as Himself
- 2019Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family as Himself
- 2019Louis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge as Himself
- 2019Louis Theroux: The Night in Question as Himself
- 2018