Louis Theroux
Known for: Acting
Born: May 20, 1970
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
45 movies · 33 TV shows, newest first
5.7
Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy
2026
7.0
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026
4.7
Saturday Night Live UK
2026
6.6
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
2026
NR
The Harry Hill Show
2026
4.0
Girlbands Forever
2025
8.2
Together for Palestine
2025
8.5
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
2025
NR
Boybands Forever
2024
7.5
Jamali Maddix: Follow the Leader
2024
4.3
Can I Tell You a Secret?
2024
7.5
Lockerbie
2023
6.6
Tell Them You Love Me
2023
6.3
KSI: In Real Life
2023
10.0
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
7.4
Louis Theroux Interviews
2022
NR
Eddie Hall: The Beast vs. The Mountain
2022
6.6
Louis Theroux's Forbidden America
2022
6.0
Sex Actually with Alice Levine
2021
7.0
Gods of Snooker
2021
6.4
Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic
2021
7.3
Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge
2020
6.3
Louis Theroux: Selling Sex
2020
7.5
Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family
2019
6.5
Louis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge
2019
6.9
Louis Theroux: The Night in Question
2019
8.0
Louis Theroux: Take My Baby
2018
7.3
Louis Theroux: Altered States
2018
8.0
Louis Theroux: Docs That Made Me
2018
4.3
The Big Narstie Show
2018
7.1
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
7.3
Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia
2017
7.3
Louis Theroux: Dark States
2017
8.0
The Russell Howard Hour
2017
6.8
Louis Theroux: Savile
2016
6.8
Louis Theroux: A Different Brain
2016
4.0
Peston on Sunday
2016
6.6
My Scientology Movie
2016
7.2
Louis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion
2016
6.4
Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids
2015
7.4
Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity
2015
7.1
Hot Ones
2015
8.3
Chicken Shop Date
2014
8.0
Louis Theroux: LA Stories - Edge of Life
2014
7.6
Louis Theroux's LA Stories
2014
7.0
Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery
2013
5.7
The Last Leg
2013
6.4
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars
2012
7.0
Louis Theroux: Extreme Love
2012
7.3
Louis Theroux: America's Most Dangerous Pets
2011
7.2
Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis
2011
7.3
Louis Theroux: Miami Mega-Jail
2011
6.5
Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists
2011
6.9
Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth
2010
7.0
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Lagos
2010
6.9
Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids
2010
7.1
Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles
2009
7.3
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Johannesburg
2008
7.2
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Philadelphia
2008
7.0
Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday
2008
7.5
Louis Theroux: Behind Bars
2008
6.6
Louis Theroux: Under the Knife
2007
7.3
Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
2007
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007
6.8
Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas
2007
7.7
The Weird World Of Louis Theroux
2007
5.1
De Wereld Draait Door
2005
NR
Spice Trade: Emma Goes to Bollywood
2005
7.2
Louis Theroux: Louis and the Nazis
2003
6.3
Louis, Martin & Michael
2003
6.9
Louis Theroux: Louis and the Brothel
2003
7.0
Living with Louis
2002
6.1
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
2.8
Lorraine
2001
NR
When Louis Met... Jimmy
2000
7.0
When Louis Met...
2000
8.0
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends
1998
6.0
TV Nation
1994