Louis Theroux

Languages

English

Styles

Broadcaster, Commercial, Dry, Neutral, Presenter, Recognisable, Warm

Accent

London, Neutral, RP

Louis Theroux is a genre-defining documentary presenter, best known for producing immersive documentaries that explore the controversial and complex aspects of the human condition.

He has presented the BAFTA-winning series Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends, When Louis Met…, and a series of award-winning specials including The Most Hated Family in America, Miami Mega Jail, Altered States and the feature-lengthdocumentary, My Scientology Movie.

Over the years, Louis has kept true to a way of working that is uniquely his own: by charming his subjects, he’s able to offer rounded portraits of the people involved in complex social issues and human dilemmas, while always resisting easy judgements.

In his BBC series Louis Theroux Interviews, Louis takes on the often-enigmatic world of celebrity. With exclusive access to some of the most iconic names in entertainment, the series sees notoriously private stars make time for revealing and unexpected encounters.

The Louis Theroux Podcast series has given Louis the chance to have some more intimate conversations with a wide range of guests he admires resulting in some surprising, unexpected, difficult, but also comic conversations.

In the summer of 2022 Louis’s took his first, rather unexpected, detour into the recording studio. After performing a rap on Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Chicken Shop Date music producers Duke & Jones sampled it, it went viral on TikTok and they invited Louis to release it as a single. Jiggle Jiggle became an instant earworm and has been streamed over 70M times and received global media recognition.

Louis has won numerous awards, including three BAFTAs, an RTS award, and Grierson’s Trustees’ Award, and in 2019, he set up his own independent television production company, Mindhouse, alongside Arron Fellows and Nancy Strang.

Podcasts

Louis Theroux

The Louis Theroux Podcast