Nephew of Paul Theroux, author of many travel books.
Cousin is Louis Theroux, actor, writer and journalist who makes television programmes for the BBC.
Appears in the "Mafia" episode of the Comedy Central show "Upright Citizens Brigade" (1998). He is filmed talking to one of the actors during a hidden camera skit that was filmed in a dog park in New York City. Have be seen wearing the same black glasses he wore in Mulholland Dr. (2001).
Justin Theroux Detailed Biography -
Justin Theroux is an accomplished film and stage actor who starred opposite Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. He will next be seen with Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore in Duplex, and opposite Audrey Tautou in Amos Kollek's Nowhere to Go but Up. His other feature film credits include Mary Harron's American Psycho and I Shot Andy Warhol, as well as Zoolander, The Broken Hearts Club and Romy and Michele's High School Reunion.
Theroux began his career in the New York theater. He starred opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman in Shopping and Fucking and starred with Calista Flockhart, Billy Crudup, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Lili Taylor in Three Sisters. He returned to New York's Lincoln Center this spring to perform in Frank McGuiness' "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme," an examination of the individual and collective desire to honor one's beliefs and country. Theroux had previously performed the play in Boston and at the Williamstown Theater Festival.
On television, Theroux will next be seen as a possible new love interest for Rachel Griffiths on Six Feet Under. His other television credits include a starring role in The District and guest-starring roles on Sex and the City and Spin City.
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Theroux graduated from Bennington College. He is the nephew of writer Paul Theroux.
