Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux's documentaries follow his attempts to get to know the people at the heart of some of the world's - and especially America's - most controversial and fascinating lifestyles.
In a career spanning nearly two decades, he has interrogated the engrained criminals at San Quentin prison; lived with the extreme believers of the Westboro Baptist Church; gambled with the high-rollers at a Las Vegas mega-casino, and stalked game with trophy hunters on South Africa's wild animal farms.
Louis started out as a correspondent on Michael Moore's TV Nation before being signed up by the BBC to make his own series, Weird Weekends, about unusual American subcultures.
Since then, he has immersed himself in numerous documentaries, spending more than a month in Miami for a two-part series about the inmates at one of America's most violent jails, revisiting his 1997 documentary about the world of male performers in Twilight of the Porn Stars and visiting one of the best schools in America for autism in Extreme Love: Autism.
Louis' feature-length documentary My Scientology Movie was released in the UK in Autumn 2016 and was the highest-grossing theatrical release documentary that year. Louis’s programmes have won numerous accolades including two Baftas and an RTS award and are shown all over the world. He also writes for print publications. His 2005 travel book about some of his adventures, THE CALL OF THE WEIRD was re-published by Pan Books in March 2018 with additional material.
In 2020 he launched a new podcast, Grounded, where he used lockdown to track down some of the people he's been longing to talk to.
In September 2019 Pan Macmillan published the first of a two book deal, GOTTA GET THEROUX THIS. It was described by Louis as a “forensic and thoughtful appraisal of my life and career”. It immediately became a Sunday Times Bestseller in hardback and then also in paperback in August 2020. It has sold over 180,000 copies and is nominated for Audiobook of the Year at The British Book Awards 2020. Bolinda announced in August 2020 that they had acquired exclusive US and Canada rights in the audiobook.
His next book, THEROUX THE KEYHOLE, was published in November 2021 by Pan Macmillan. Unable to escape to the porn sets, prisons and maximum-security psychiatric units that are his usual journalistic beat, he began reporting on a location even more full of pitfalls and hostile objects of inquiry: his own home during a pandemic.
Robert Caskie manages Louis Theroux's literary career. For all other enquiries please contact Tracey MacLeod at KBJ Management.