Louis Theroux
Writer • Director • Broadcaster
Birth Date: May 20, 1970
Age: 54 years old
Birth Place: Singapore
Siblings: Justin Theroux
Louis Theroux is a writer, actor, director, and producer who is best known for writing "My Scientology Movie" and "Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends." Theroux was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 1996 for "TV Nation."
Credits
Boybands Forever
Actor
Show
2024
Boybands Forever
Executive Producer
Show
2024
Louis Theroux: Dietro le sbarre
Host
Show
2023
KSI: In Real Life
Executive Producer
Movie
2023
Tell Them You Love Me
Executive Producer
Movie
2023
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Executive Producer
Show
2022
Louis Theroux Interviews
Host
Show
2022
Eddie Hall: The Beast v The Mountain
Executive Producer
Show
2022
Takes On the Dark Side
Self
Show
2022
Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic
Host
Show
2022
Joe Wicks: Facing My Childhood
Executive Producer
Show
2022
Louis Theroux: Forbidden America
Host
Show
2022
Louis Theroux: Forbidden America
Writer
Show
2022
The Coming Storm
Guest
Show
2022
Things Fell Apart
Host
Show
2021
The Bambers: Murder At The Farm
Executive Producer
Show
2021
Sex Actually with Alice Levine
Executive Producer
Show
2021
Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic
Host
Show
2021
Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic
Writer
Show
2021
Gods of Snooker
Executive Producer
Show
2021
Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic
Host
Show
2021
Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge
Host
Show
2020
Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge
Writer
Show
2020
Richard & Judy: Keep Reading and Carry On
Guest
Show
2020
Grounded with Louis Theroux
Host
Show
2020
Russell Howard's Home Time
Guest
Show
2020
Louis Theroux: The Return of America's Most Hated Family
Actor
Show
2020
Louis Theroux: Selling Sex From Home
Host
Show
2019
Louis Theroux: Selling Sex From Home
Writer
Show
2019
Surviving America's Most Hated Family
Host
Show
2019
Surviving America's Most Hated Family
Writer
Show
2019
Louis Theroux: Mothers On The Edge
Actor
Show
2019
Louis Theroux: Mothers On The Edge
Writer
Show
2019
Louis Theroux: The Night in Question
Host
Show
2019
Louis Theroux: The Night in Question
Writer
Show
2019
Louis Theroux: Take My Baby
Host
Show
2018
Louis Theroux: Choosing Death
Host
Show
2018
Louis Theroux's Altered States
Host
Show
2018
Louis Theroux: Love Without Limits
Actor
Show
2018
The Big Narstie Show
Guest
Show
2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off: Stand Up To Cancer
Contestant
Show
2018
Louis Theroux: Murder in Milwaukee
Host
Show
2018
Louis Theroux: Trafficking Sex
Host
Show
2018
Louis Theroux: Heroin Town
Host
Show
2018
En by på heroin
Host
Show
2018
Sex-handel i Houston
Host
Show
2018
Mord i Milwaukee
Host
Show
2018
Louis Theroux: Dark States
Host
Show
2017
Louis Theroux: Dark States
Producer
Show
2017
Louis Theroux: Dark States
Writer
Show
2017
Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia
Host
Show
2017
Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia
Writer
Show
2017
The Russell Howard Hour
Guest
Show
2017
Louis Theroux: Drinking To Oblivion
Host
Show
2017
Louis Theroux: Drinking To Oblivion
Writer
Show
2017
Louis Theroux: A Different Brain
Host
Show
2017
Louis Theroux: A Different Brain
Writer
Show
2017
Louis Theroux: Savile
Self
Show
2016
Louis Theroux: Savile
Writer
Show
2016
En skadet hjerne
Host
Show
2016
At drikke for at glemme
Host
Show
2016
Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids
Host
Show
2015
Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids
Writer
Show
2015
Louis Theroux
Host
Show
2015
Louis Theroux
Writer
Show
2015
Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity
Host
Show
2015
Louis Theroux: Life on the EdgeStream
Host
Series
2015
Louis Theroux: Life on the EdgeStream
Writer
Series
2015
Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity
Editor
Show
2015
My Scientology Movie
Screenwriter
Movie
2015
My Scientology Movie
Self
Movie
2015
My Scientology Movie
Writer
Movie
2015
Louis Theroux: LA Stories - Edge of Life
Host
Show
2014
Louis Theroux: LA Stories - City of Dogs
Host
Show
2014
Good Morning Britain
Guest
Show
2014
Theroux ja seksirikolliset
Host
Show
2014
Louis Theroux: Edge of Life
Host
Show
2014
Louis Theroux: Edge of Life
Writer
Show
2014
Louis Theroux's L.A. Stories
Host
Show
2014
Louis Theroux's L.A. Stories
Writer
Show
2014
Jumbo: The Plane That Changed The World
Producer
Show
2014
This Is Autism
Host
Show
2013
The Last Leg
Guest
Talk
2013
Louis Theroux: Beware of the Tiger
Host
Show
2013
Louis Theroux: Beware of the Tiger
Writer
Show
2013
Louis Theroux: Extreme Love - Autism
Host
Show
2012
Louis Theroux: Extreme Love - Autism
Writer
Show
2012
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars
Host
Show
2012
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars
Writer
Show
2012
Louis Theroux: Miami Mega Jail
Host
Show
2012
Louis Theroux: Miami Mega Jail
Self
Show
2012
Louis Theroux: Miami Mega Jail
Writer
Show
2012
Louis Theroux: Extreme Love - Dementia
Host
Show
2012
Louis Theroux: Extreme Love
Host
Show
2012
Victoria Derbyshire
Guest
Show
2012
Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth
Host
Show
2011
Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth
Writer
Show
2011
Louis Theroux: America's Most Dangerous Pets
Host
Show
2011
Louis Theroux: America's Most Dangerous Pets
Writer
Show
2011
Louis Theroux: Return to America's Most Hated Family
Host
Show
2011
Louis Theroux: Return to America's Most Hated Family
Writer
Show
2011
The Jonathan Ross ShowStream
Guest
Talk
2011
Inheritance Tracks
Guest
Show
2011
7.30
Guest
Show
2011
Louis Theroux: Ultra Zionists
Host
Show
2011
Louis Theroux: Ultra Zionists
Writer
Show
2011
Pointless Celebrities
Contestant
Show
2010
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Lagos
Host
Show
2010
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Lagos
Writer
Show
2010
Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids
Host
Show
2010
Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids
Writer
Show
2010
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Johannesburg
Host
Show
2009
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Johannesburg
Producer
Show
2009
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Johannesburg
Writer
Show
2009
The Project
Guest
Show
2009
Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles
Host
Show
2009
Louis Theroux and the Brothel
Host
Show
2009
Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas
Consulting Producer
Show
2009
Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas
Host
Show
2009
Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas
Writer
Show
2009
Louis Theroux: Behind Bars
Host
Show
2009
Louis Theroux: Behind Bars
Writer
Show
2009
Louis Theroux: Killadelphia
Host
Show
2008
Louis Theroux: Killadelphia
Producer
Show
2008
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Philadelphia
Producer
Show
2008
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Philadelphia
Self
Show
2008
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Philadelphia
Writer
Show
2008
Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday
Self
Show
2008
Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday
Writer
Show
2008
America's Most Hated Family
Host
Show
2007
America's Most Hated Family
Screenwriter
Show
2007
Louis Theroux Under the Knife
Host
Show
2007
Louis Theroux Under the Knife
Writer
Show
2007
The Graham Norton ShowStream
Guest
Talk
2007
Louis Theroux: Louis and the Most Hated Family in America
Host
Show
2007
Louis Theroux: Louis and the Most Hated Family in America
Writer
Show
2007
Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
Host
Show
2007
Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
Writer
Show
2007
The Most Hated Family in America
Host
Movie
2007
The Most Hated Family in America
Writer
Movie
2007
Saturday Live
Guest
Show
2006
The One Show
Guest
Show
2006
Cbeebies Bedtime Stories
Host
Show
2004
Louis and the Nazis
Writer
Movie
2003
Loose Women
Guest
Show
2002
When Louis Met ...
Host
Show
2002
Louis Theroux's Weird Christmas
Host
Show
2001
Desert Island Discs
Guest
Show
2001
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends
Host
Show
1998
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends
Writer
Show
1998
TV Nation
Actor
Show
1994
This Morning
Guest
Show
1988
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