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BACKGROUND/ EARLY CAREER

LOUIS THEROUX IS A 46 YEAR OLD DOCUMENTARIAN FILMMAKER AND
BROADCASTER, BORN IN SINGAPORE HOWEVER MOVED OVER TO
ENGLAND WITH HIS FAMILY AT THE AGE OF ONE.
HIS FIRST JOB WAS IN AMERICA AT A FREE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, METRO
SILICON VALLEY IN CALIFORNIA. THEROUX LINKS IN WITH MY FIRST PART OF
MY DOCUMENTARIAN RESEARCH AS HE WORKED IN CORRESPONDENCE
WITH MICHAEL MOORES TV NATION SERIES. AS BOTH DOCUMENTARIANS
OFTEN COVER CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECTS OFTEN UNUSUAL SUBJECTS
WERE COVERED BY THE SERIES, SUCH AS THE REBRANDING OF THE KU
KLUX KLAN POSING AS A CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP FOR WHITE PEOPLE.

PERSONAL LIFE
IN 2012 LOUIS THEROUX MARRIED HIS LONG-TERM GIRLFRIEND NANCY
STRANG. THEYVE HAD THREE CHILDREN TOGETHER AND LIVE IN LONDON.
ONCE HE STARTED UP HIS LA STORIES SERIES HIS FAMILY TEMPORARILY
MIGRATED TO CALIFORNIA TO ALLOW MORE TIME FOR THE EPISODES, IN
INTERVIEWS THEROUX OPENLY SPEAKS ABOUT THE DIFFICULTIES WITH
BALANCING FAMILY LIFE AND THE NEED TO GO AWAY FOR WORK AND FILM
PROJECTS.

CAREER

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AFTER TV NATION ENDED LOUIS PARTERENED WITH THE BBC, THIS IS WHERE
HE DEVELOPED HIS FAMOUS LOUIS THEROUXS WEIRD WEEKENDS WHICH
LASTED FOR TWO YEARS FROM 1998-2000. FOLLOWING ON HIS CAREER ON
CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS LOUIS OFTEN LIVED AMUNGST SURVIVALISTS, WHITE
SUPREMACISTS AND SEX OFFENDERS. HE DESCRIBES THE SERIES AS:
"SETTING OUT TO DISCOVER THE GENUINELY ODD IN THE MOST ORDINARY
SETTING.
IN HIS WORK HE IS ALMOST ALWAYS IN THE EDGE OF THE SCENE, ASKING THE
PEOPLE HES WITH, QUESTIONS AND PROMPTING MORE INFORMATION THAN
AN AVERAGE PERSON WOULD. THEROUX ALSO SEEMS TO COONECT WITH
EVERY TOPIC HES FILMING WITH SUCH AS AUTISTIC CHILDREN TO DEMENTIA
SUFFERS.

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ANOTHER SERIES LOUIS ALSO CREATED WAS WHEN LOUIS MET THIS SERIES
FOLLOWED THEROUX ACCOMPANIED WITH DIFFERENT BRITISH CELEBRITIES SUCH AS
TORY MP NEIL HAMILTON, MAX CLIFFORD AND JIMMY SAVILE. OF ITS TIME WHEN LOUIS
MET JIMMY WAS VOTED ONE OF THE TOP DOCUMENTARIES BY A SURVEY CONDUCTED
BY CHANNEL 4.
ANOTHER TRAIT THAT SETS LOUIS ASIDE FROM OTHER DOCUMENTARIANS IS HIS RIGID
AND PRECISE OPINIONS IN THE SUBJECT MATTERS ON HAND. WHILST FILMING
AMERICAS MOST HATED FAMILY IN CRISIS HE STATED HIS POSITION IN RELIGION AND
SAID I DONT BELIEVE IN GOD, THIS IS ESPECIALLY CONTROVERSIAL WITHIN THE
SETTING HE STATED THIS IN AS HE WAS FILMING WITH DEEPLY RELIGIOUS WHITE
FAMILY SUPREMACISTS.

AWARDS
LOUIS HAS ACCUMULATED A NUMBER OF AWARDS THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER.
IN 1996 HE WAS UP FOR A NOMINATION FOR PRIMETIME EMMY AWARD FOR
OUTSTANDING INFORMATIONAL SERIES THROUGH HIS WORK ALONGSIDE
MICHAEL MOORE AND OTHERS FOR THE SERIES TV NATION. BACK IN 2001 HE
WON A BAFTA FOR HIS SERIES LOUIS THEROUXS WEIRD WEEKENDS. THE
FOLLOWING YEAR HE WON THE SAME BAFTA, TV AWARD FOR WHEN LOUIS
MET AND WAS NOMINATED FOR THE SPECIFIC EPISODE WHEN LOUIS MET
THE HAMILTONS IN THE SAME YEAR. LOUIS THEROUX HAS ALSO HAVE
NUMEROUS NOMINATIONS AND WINS FROM THE ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY,
UK.