Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
20 May, 1970 (55 years old)
Louis Theroux
Biography
Louis Sebastian Theroux (/ˈluːi θəˈruː/; born 20 May 1970) is a British-American documentary filmmaker, journalist, broadcaster, and author. He has received two British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award. After graduating from Oxford University, Theroux moved to the US 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 and later began to host his own documentaries, including Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, When Louis Met..., and several BBC Two specials.
Known For
Acting
2025
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
2022
Louis Theroux Interviews
2022
Louis Theroux's Forbidden America
2021
Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic
2020
Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge
2020
Louis Theroux: Selling Sex
2019
Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family
2019
Louis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge
2019
Louis Theroux: The Night in Question
2018
Louis Theroux: Altered States
2017
Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia
2016
Louis Theroux: Savile
2016
Louis Theroux: A Different Brain
2016
My Scientology Movie
2016
Louis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion
2015
Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids
2015
Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity
2014
Louis Theroux's LA Stories
2012
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars
2011
Louis Theroux: America's Most Dangerous Pets
2011
Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis
2011
Louis Theroux: Miami Mega-Jail
2011
Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists
2010
Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth
2010
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Lagos
2010
Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids
2009
Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles
2008
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Johannesburg
2008
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Philadelphia
2008
Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday
2008
Louis Theroux: Behind Bars
2007
Louis Theroux: Under the Knife
2007
Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
2007
Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas
2003
Louis Theroux: Louis and the Nazis
2003
Louis Theroux: Louis and the Brothel
1998
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends
