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Name	Louis Theroux
First Name	Louis
Last Name	Theroux
Occupation	Director
Birthday	May 20
Birth Year	1970
Place of Birth
Home Town
Birth Country	Singapore
Birth Sign	Taurus
Full/Birth Name
Father	Not Available
Mother	Not Available
Siblings	Not Available
Spouse	Nancy Strang , Susanna Kleeman
Children(s)	Frederick Theroux, Walter Theroux, Albert Theroux

Louis Theroux Biography

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Louis Sebastian Theroux (/ˈ l uː i θ ə ˈ r uː / ; 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.

Theroux moved with his family to England at the age of one, and was brought up in London. He was educated at Tower House School and then at Westminster School, a public school within the precincts of Westminster Abbey. While there, he became friends with comedians Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, and the Liberal Democrat politician Nick Clegg, with whom he travelled to America. He also performed in a number of school theatre productions including Bugsy Malone as Looney Bergonzi, Ritual for Dolls as the Army Officer, and The Splendour Falls as the Minstrel. Theroux later read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford (1988–1991), graduating with first-class honours.

From 1998 to 2001, he was married to Susanna Kleeman for the first time. He married Nancy Strang, a television director in 2011. He is the father of three sons, Albert, Walter and Frederick.

His documentaries, such as When Louis Met …,, which won a BAFTA Award in 2002, made him famous.

Louis Sebastian Theroux was born in Singapore on 20 May 1970, the son of American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux and his English then-wife Anne (née Castle). His paternal grandmother, Anne (née Dittami), was an Italian-American grammar school teacher, and his paternal grandfather, Albert Eugène Theroux, was French-Canadian and a salesman for the American Leather Oak company. He holds both British and American citizenship. His older brother, Marcel, is a writer and television presenter. His cousin, Justin, is an actor and screenwriter. Theroux is the nephew of novelist Alexander Theroux and writer Peter Theroux.

Louis Theroux Net Worth

Louis is one of the richest Director from Singapore. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Louis Theroux's net worth $4 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

His father, the travel and fiction writer At the beginning of his career as a journalist, he was influenced by the work of his father, the fiction and travel writer Paul Theroux. His brother, Marcel Theroux, also had a career as a writer., was an influence on his early career as a journalist. His brother Marcel Theroux also had a career in writing.

Net Worth	$4 Million
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Source of Income	Director
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House	Living in own house.

Theroux’s first marriage was to Susanna Kleeman from 1998 to 2001; he later told Sathnam Sanghera of the Financial Times, “What happened was that my girlfriend was living with me in New York. She was having trouble finding work … legally. So we got married, to make it easier for her. We never really considered ourselves married in the full sense – there were no wedding photos or anything like that. It was really a marriage of convenience.”

In Weird Weekends (1998–2000), Theroux followed marginal (mostly American) subcultures such as survivalists, black nationalists, white supremacists, and porn stars, often by living among or close to the people involved. His documentary method often subtly exposed the contradictions or farcical elements of some seriously held beliefs. He described the aim of the series as:

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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As part of the Weird Weekends episode “Porn”, Theroux agreed to film a cameo in the 1997 gay pornography film Take a Peak. He did not perform sexual acts in the film, but made a brief appearance as a park ranger in search of a criminal. In the Weird Weekends episode “Infomercials”, he was featured as a live salesman for an at-home paper shredder for the Home Shopping Network.

Who is Louis Theroux Dating?

According to our records, Louis Theroux married to Nancy Strang , Susanna Kleeman . As of January 13, 2024, Louis Theroux’s is not dating anyone.

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In the series When Louis Met… (2000–02), Theroux accompanied a different British celebrity in each programme in their daily lives, interviewing them as they go. His episode about British entertainer Jimmy Savile, When Louis Met Jimmy, was voted one of the top documentaries of all time in a 2005 survey by Britain’s Channel 4. Some years after the episode was filmed, the NSPCC described Savile as one of the most prolific sex offenders in Great Britain.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Louis Theroux height 6 ft 2 in Louis weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

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Theroux’s first employment as a journalist was in the United States with Metro Silicon Valley, an alternative free weekly newspaper in San Jose, California. In 1992, he was hired as a writer for Spy magazine. He also worked as a correspondent on Michael Moore’s TV Nation series, for which he provided segments on off-beat cultural subjects, including selling Avon to women in the Amazon Rainforest, the Jerusalem syndrome, and attempts by the Ku Klux Klan to rebrand itself as a civil rights group for white people.

In these special programmes, beginning in 2003, Theroux returned to American themes, working at feature-length and in a more natural way. In March 2006, he signed a new deal with the BBC to make 10 films over the course of three years. Subjects for the specials include criminal gangs in Lagos, Neo-Nazis in America, ultra-Zionists in Israel. He also visits child psychiatry, and the prison systems in California and Florida. A 2007 special, The Most Hated Family in America, received strong critical praise from the international media.

Facts & Trivia

Louis Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Singapore. Louis Theroux celebrates birthday on May 20 of every year.

Theroux published his first book, The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures, in Britain in 2005. In it he recounts his return to the United States to learn about the lives of some of the people he had featured in his television programmes.

How are Justin and Louis Theroux related?

Justin and Louis are cousins (their dads are brothers) and spent a lot of time together growing up, often when Louis’s family would visit America. They obviously share a last name, yet they don’t agree on how it’s supposed to be pronounced. “You go by ‘ther-oo’ and I go by ‘ther-oh’,” says Justin.

Does Netflix have Louis Theroux?

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What is Louis Theroux most known for?

He is known for presenting a series of documentaries for Unreported Worlds as well as the Channel 4 climate change documentary The End Of The World As We Know It. Louis and Marcel’s cousin is actor Justin Theroux, who was married to Jennifer Aniston.

Where can I watch Louis Theroux docs?

BBC iPlayer – Louis Theroux.

Are Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston still friends?

Aniston and Theroux began dating in 2011 and got engaged in 2012 before tying the knot in a backyard ceremony in August 2015. They announced their split in early 2018. The former couple has since had an amicable relationship, remaining in each others’ lives as friends.

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