Louis Theroux

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
May 20, 1970 (55 years old)

Louis Theroux

Known For

Louis Theroux: The Settlers
1h 2m
Movie 2025

Louis Theroux: The Settlers

14 years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the occupied West Bank.

Louis Theroux Interviews
TV Show 2022

Louis Theroux Interviews

Louis Theroux interviews some of the biggest names in UK entertainment and is granted exclusive access into their lives, both at work and at home.

Louis Theroux's Forbidden America
TV Show 2022

Louis Theroux's Forbidden America

Louis Theroux returns to the USA for three documentary films exploring the alt right and its use of social media, rap artists and their often bloody and fatal vendettas, and the repercussions in the porn industry following the #MeToo movement.

Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic
1h 29m
Movie 2021

Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic

This special sees Louis travel to America to investigate the story of a man who has become one of the most controversial and captivating icons of recent times: the gun-toting, self-described 'gay hillbilly' and 'Tiger King' Joe Exotic.

Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge
4h 0m
TV Show 2020

Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge

Louis Theroux reflects on 25 years of documentaries, featuring brand new conversations between him and his most memorable contributors.

Louis Theroux: Selling Sex
1h 0m
Movie 2020

Louis Theroux: Selling Sex

Meet women in UK, legally providing sexual services, either to make a living or to supplement their income, potentially earning hundreds of pounds per hour.

Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family
1h 0m
Movie 2019

Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family

Louis returns to visit the Westboro Baptist Church in the wake of the death of its leader.

Louis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge
0h 59m
Movie 2019

Louis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge

Louis Theroux visits specialist psychiatric units which treat mothers experiencing serious mental illness whilst allowing them to live alongside their babies.

Louis Theroux: The Night in Question
0h 59m
Movie 2019

Louis Theroux: The Night in Question

Louis Theroux heads to American college campuses and comes face-to-face with students whose universities are accusing them of sexual assault.

Louis Theroux: Take My Baby
0h 59m
Movie 2018

Louis Theroux: Take My Baby

Louis heads to California, the US adoption capital, where the majority of newborn adoptions are carried out privately, creating a multimillion dollar industry. Agencies, facilitators and lawyers can earn thousands of dollars per baby.

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.

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