Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux      (filmmaker, journalist, broadcaster, author)
Born	Louis Sebastian Theroux 20 May 1970 Singapore
Alma mater	Magdalen College (Oxford)
Spouse	• Susanna Kleeman ​(m. 1994; div. 2001)​ • Nancy Strang ​(m. 2012)
Founder of	Mindhouse Productions

Louis Theroux is a British-American filmmaker, journalist, broadcaster, and author, who has received two British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award.

Background

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 and later began to host his own documentaries for the BBC, including Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, When Louis Met..., and several BBC 2 specials.

Mindhouse

In October 2019, Louis Theroux, his wife Nancy Strang and filmmaker Arron Fellows co-founded Mindhouse, a London-based independent television production company. In November 2022, it was reported that Mindhouse Productions had been commissioned by Sky to make a three-part documentary on the Lockerbie disaster. Titled "Lockerbie", it will tell the story of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, when 270 people died on the night of 21 December 1988.

Theroux said "Lockerbie" was "exactly the sort of project I wanted us to get involved with when we set up. Our values are about storytelling and being audience-friendly, and I’m not ashamed to say we want to reach a really wide audience.”

Series director John Dower said: "I vividly remember Lockerbie from my teenage years of growing up in a Scottish household, but revisiting the event over 30 years later realised how little I knew about the actual event and the way it continues to reverberate down the years.”

Sky says the series will “examine unanswered questions to provide a definitive account of the Lockerbie bombing and its aftermath and, ultimately, who was responsible.”

Forbidden America

In 2022, an episode of his documentary series Forbidden America covered the American far right. Those interviewed included:

• Nick Fuentes
• Brittany Venti
• Baked Alaska

Books

Louis Theroux published his first book, "The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures", in Britain in 2005. In it, he recounts his return to the United States to learn about the lives of some of the people he had featured in his television programmes.

Theroux released a memoir, "Gotta Get Theroux This", in September 2019 and released his third book, "Theroux the Keyhole", a diary recorded during the UK COVID-19 lockdowns, in November 2021.

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