Louis's everyday life:
Louis Sebastian Theroux was born on the 20th of May 1970 in Singapore, he is the son of the American travel writer Paul Theroux and his English then-wife Anne. His paternal grandmother, Anne was an Italian American his paternal grandfather, Albert Theroux, was French-Canadian.
Louis holds both British and American citizenships. His older brother, Marcel, is a writer and presenter for Channel 4, his cousin however works as an actor and screenwriter. Theroux moved with his family to England when he was one and was brought up on London. He was educated west minister public school, while there he became friends with comedians Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, and a liberal democrat Nick Clegg. Louis first employment was as a journalist in the US with the Metro Silicon Valley, an alternative job Louis had was for the free weekly newspaper in San Jose, California. In 1992, he was then hired at by Spy Magazine and then a correspondent on Michael Moore's TV Nation series.
Work life for Louis Theroux:
Louis worked on multiple documentary's such as: Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, When Louis Met..., My Scientology Movie, and BBC Two Specials. Many of these have gained high critical praised from the international media. During his time working on documentaries he also made other appearances in one of the weird weekends episodes "porn", Theroux agreed to film a cameo in the 1997 gay pornography film as a park ranger looking for a criminal. Theroux's first marriage was to Susanna Kleeman in the late 90s and then was divorced 2001; he told the Financial Time's Sathnam Sangera, that "she was finding trouble finding work...legally. So we got married to make it easier". Theroux later married long-time girlfriend Nancy Strang in 2012. He has three sons and lives in Harlesden, London until they temporarily moved to LA, California in 2013.
In a 2012 masterclass, theroux spoke of the challenge of combining his work life with his family life.
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