He also performed in a number of school theatre productions including Bugsy Malone as Looney Bergonzi, Ritual for Dolls as the Army Officer, and The Splendour Falls as the Minstrel. There, he befriended comedians Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, and future Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, with whom he travelled to America. He went from primary school to Tower House School in East Sheen in 1979 or 1980 and then to Westminster School, a public school within the precincts of Westminster Abbey. Theroux moved with his family to England when he was one year old, and was raised in the Catford area of south London.

His cousin, Justin, is an actor and screenwriter. His older brother, Marcel, is a writer and television presenter. He is the nephew of novelist Alexander Theroux and writer Peter Theroux. Theroux holds dual British and American citizenship. His paternal grandmother, Anne Dittami, was an Italian-American grammar school teacher, while his paternal grandfather, Albert Eugène Theroux, was a French-Canadian salesman for the American Leather Oak company. Louis Sebastian Theroux was born in Singapore on, the son of English mother Anne (née Castle) and American father Paul Theroux, a noted travel writer and novelist. He moved into television as the presenter of offbeat segments on Michael Moore's TV Nation series and later began to host many more documentaries for the BBC, including Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, When Louis Met., and several BBC Two specials. He has received three British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award.Īfter graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, Theroux moved to the United States and worked as a journalist for Metro Silicon Valley and Spy. Louis Sebastian Theroux ( / ˈ l uː i θ ə ˈ r uː/ born ) is a British-American documentarian, journalist, broadcaster, and author.

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