To have made a career in TV while being nervous by nature and incapable of doing a piece to camera.
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Louis Theroux
British and American journalist and author
United Kingdom / United States · b. 1970
Politics and public life
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Born in Singapore, Louis Theroux, 48, broke into television when Michael Moore employed him as a writer on his satirical show, TV Nation; he went on to win Baftas for his Weird Weekends and When Louis Met… documentaries. His subjects have included pornography, Scientology and addiction. Louis Theroux’s Altered States: Choosing Death is on BBC 2. He is married with three sons and lives in London.
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There was a period in the early 2000s when I had been doing celebrity profiles and thought I’d lost my way creatively.
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