Louis Theroux
Acting
1970-05-20 · 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. 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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Louis Theroux, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
TheatersBig Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy
2026 · Movie
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026 · Movie
Saturday Night Live UK
2026 · Series
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
2026 · Movie
The Harry Hill Show
2026 · Series
Girlbands Forever
2025 · Series
Together for Palestine
2025 · Movie
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
2025 · Movie
Boybands Forever
2024 · Series
Jamali Maddix: Follow the Leader
2024 · Series
Can I Tell You a Secret?
2024 · Series
Lockerbie
2023 · Series
Tell Them You Love Me
2023 · Movie
KSI: In Real Life
2023 · Movie
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022 · Movie
Louis Theroux Interviews
2022 · Series
Eddie Hall: The Beast vs. The Mountain
2022 · Movie
Louis Theroux's Forbidden America
2022 · Series
Sex Actually with Alice Levine
2021 · Series
Gods of Snooker
2021 · Series
Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic
2021 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge
2020 · Series
Louis Theroux: Selling Sex
2020 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family
2019 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge
2019 · Movie
Louis Theroux: The Night in Question
2019 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Take My Baby
2018 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Altered States
2018 · Series
Louis Theroux: Docs That Made Me
2018 · Movie
The Big Narstie Show
2018 · Series
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018 · Series
Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia
2017 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Dark States
2017 · Series
The Russell Howard Hour
2017 · Series
Louis Theroux: Savile
2016 · Movie
Louis Theroux: A Different Brain
2016 · Movie
Peston on Sunday
2016 · Series
My Scientology Movie
2016 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion
2016 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids
2015 · Movie
Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity
2015 · Series
Hot Ones
2015 · Series
Chicken Shop Date
2014 · Series
Louis Theroux: LA Stories - Edge of Life
2014 · Movie
Louis Theroux's LA Stories
2014 · Series
Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery
2013 · Series
The Last Leg
2013 · Series
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars
2012 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Extreme Love
2012 · Series
Louis Theroux: America's Most Dangerous Pets
2011 · Movie
Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis
2011 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Miami Mega-Jail
2011 · Series
Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists
2011 · Movie
Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth
2010 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Lagos
2010 · Movie
Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids
2010 · Movie
Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles
2009 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Johannesburg
2008 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Philadelphia
2008 · Movie
Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday
2008 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Behind Bars
2008 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Under the Knife
2007 · Movie
Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
2007 · Movie
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas
2007 · Movie
The Weird World Of Louis Theroux
2007 · Movie
De Wereld Draait Door
2005 · Series
Spice Trade: Emma Goes to Bollywood
2005 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Louis and the Nazis
2003 · Movie
Louis, Martin & Michael
2003 · Movie
Louis Theroux: Louis and the Brothel
2003 · Movie
Living with Louis
2002 · Movie
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001 · Series
Lorraine
2001 · Series
When Louis Met...
2000 · Series
When Louis Met... Jimmy
2000 · Movie
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends
1998 · Series
TV Nation
1994 · Series