Louis Theroux
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 (65 titles)
7.0MovieDavid Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
Self · 2026
4.2ShowSaturday Night Live UK
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · 2026
6.6MovieLouis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
Self · 2026
ShowThe Harry Hill Show
Self · 2026
8.2MovieTogether for Palestine
Self · 2025
8.5MovieLouis Theroux: The Settlers
Self · 2025
7.5ShowLouis Theroux Interviews
Self - Presenter · 2022
6.5ShowLouis Theroux's Forbidden America
Self · 2022
6.4MovieLouis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic
Self · 2021
7.4ShowLouis Theroux: Life on the Edge
Self · 2020
6.3MovieLouis Theroux: Selling Sex
Himself · 2020
7.8MovieLouis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family
Himself · 2019
6.5MovieLouis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge
Himself · 2019
6.9MovieLouis Theroux: The Night in Question
Himself · 2019
8.0MovieLouis Theroux: Take My Baby
Himself · 2018
7.4ShowLouis Theroux: Altered States
2018
8.0MovieLouis Theroux: Docs That Made Me
Self · 2018
4.3ShowThe Big Narstie Show
Self · 2018
7.1ShowThe Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest · 2018
7.3MovieLouis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia
Himself · 2017
7.3ShowLouis Theroux: Dark States
Himself · 2017
8.0ShowThe Russell Howard Hour
Self · 2017
6.9MovieLouis Theroux: Savile
Self · 2016
6.9MovieLouis Theroux: A Different Brain
Himself · 2016
4.0ShowPeston on Sunday
Themselves - Guest · 2016
6.6MovieMy Scientology Movie
Self · 2016
7.4MovieLouis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion
2016
6.4MovieLouis Theroux: Transgender Kids
Himself · 2015
7.4ShowLouis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity
Himself · 2015
7.0ShowHot Ones
Self · 2015