Louis Theroux
Birthday: 1970-05-20
Place of Birth: Singapore
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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Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
Louis meets the Phelps family — the people at the heart of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church...
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Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids
Faced with the challenging behaviour of their kids, more and more parents in America are turning to ...
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Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles
Louis has gained access to Coalinga Mental Hospital in California, which houses more than 500 of the...
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Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth
Join Louis Theroux as he investigates the affect crystal meth addiction is having on the local commu...
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Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists
Louis Theroux spends time with a small and very committed subculture of ultra-nationalist Jewish set...
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Louis Theroux: Docs That Made Me
Renowned documentarian Louis Theroux dived into the BBC Archives and selected his favourite document...
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Louis Theroux: Behind Bars
For two weeks, Theroux visits the San Quentin State Prison....
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Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday
Louis goes to South Africa where American tourists pay to hunt wild animals in privately owned reser...
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Louis Theroux: Louis and the Brothel
Louis stays with the residents of a soon to open brothel in Nevada for a few weeks....
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Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars
In 1997, Louis Theroux made a documentary about the world of male porn performers in Los Angeles. 15...
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Louis Theroux: Under the Knife
Louis Theroux: Under the Knife is a TV documentary written and presented by Louis Theroux about the ...
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Louis Theroux: Louis and the Nazis
Louis Theroux travels to California to meet the man dubbed "the most dangerous racist in America"; T...
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Louis Theroux: America's Most Dangerous Pets
The programme follows Theroux as he travels to the United States to meet people who own animals norm...
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Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis
Following up on his 2007 documentary, The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux returns to Top...
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Living with Louis
The people profiled by Louis Theroux in the documentary series "When Louis Met..." reflect on their ...
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Louis, Martin & Michael
Louis Theroux sets out on a personal quest to meet the ultimate pop idol - Michael Jackson - and exa...
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Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids
Louis Theroux travels to San Francisco where a group of pioneering medical professionals help childr...
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My Scientology Movie
After being denied access to the Church of Scientology's headquarters, documentarian Louis Theroux t...
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Louis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion
Louis spends time at King's College Hospital in London where he immerses himself in the lives of pat...
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Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas
Louis heads to Las Vegas, to reveal the world behind the myths of casino culture. Among the people h...
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Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Philadelphia
Louis visits one of America’s most crime-ridden cities in this installment of Law and Disorder....
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Louis Theroux: A Different Brain
Following on from his recent look at alcoholism, the UK’s premier documentarian returns with another...
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Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Lagos
Louis Theroux is in Lagos, following the local gangs and a paramilitary task force....
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Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Johannesburg
Louis Theroux travels to Johannesburg, where the residents find themselves increasingly besieged by ...
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Louis Theroux: Take My Baby
Louis heads to California, the US adoption capital, where the majority of newborn adoptions are carr...
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Louis Theroux: Savile
Sixteen years after his documentary When Louis Met Jimmy, Theroux seeks to understand how he was tri...
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The Weird World Of Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux narrates a compilation of clips from his documentaries....
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Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia
Anorexia, the pathological fear of eating and gaining weight, is now the most deadly mental illness ...
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Louis Theroux: The Night in Question
Louis Theroux heads to American college campuses and comes face-to-face with students whose universi...
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Louis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge
Louis Theroux visits specialist psychiatric units which treat mothers experiencing serious mental il...
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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....
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Louis Theroux: Selling Sex
Meet women in UK, legally providing sexual services, either to make a living or to supplement their ...
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Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic
This special sees Louis travel to America to investigate the story of a man who has become one of th...
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Louis Theroux: LA Stories - Edge of Life
Louis is at Cedars Sinai Medical Centre in L.A to learn about the American way of death....
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Louis Theroux: The Settlers
14 years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-natio...
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