Louis Theroux
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Journalist, Broadcaster, and Author
Louis Theroux is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and author known for his immersive, genre-defining documentaries. With a gentle, inquisitive style, Louis takes audiences inside hidden worlds—from prisons and cults to subcultures and extreme lifestyles—revealing complex human stories with empathy, wit, and insight.
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Louis Theroux is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, broadcaster, and author, renowned for producing immersive, genre-defining documentaries that explore the controversial and complex aspects of the human condition.
With his gentle questioning style and informal approach, Louis has brought audiences into the worlds of people and communities often hidden from view—from inmates at San Quentin Prison and members of the Westboro Baptist Church, to male porn performers in California and young women struggling with eating disorders in London. His work resists easy judgements while providing compelling, empathetic portraits of his subjects.
Louis began his career in 1994 working for Michael Moore on TV Nation and went on to create BAFTA-winning series including Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends, When Louis Met…, and acclaimed specials such as The Most Hated Family in America, Miami Mega Jail, Altered States, and My Scientology Movie.
In addition to his television work, Louis is the author of three books—The Call of the Weird, Gotta Get Theroux This, and Theroux The Keyhole—which combine humour, insight, and personal reflection. He also co-founded his independent production company, Mindhouse, in 2019.
Louis Theroux lives in North West London with his wife and three children, continuing to captivate audiences worldwide with his unique ability to explore the human experience with curiosity, compassion, and wit.
