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Justin Theroux Profile |
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Birth Date: August 10, 1971
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Birth Place: Washington, D.C., USA
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Birth Name: Justin Theroux
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Height: 5'10"
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Biography |
Justin Theroux is an American actor, screenwriter and
director.
Theroux was born in Washington, D.C.. His mother, Phyllis
Theroux, is a journalist and author; his father Eugene
Theroux is a corporate lawyer. Justin Theroux is the nephew
of the travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux, and the
cousin of writers and TV presenters Louis Theroux and Marcel
Theroux. He attended The Field School in Washington D.C.
Theroux began acting while attending Buxton School, a
boarding school in Williamstown, MA. He graduated from
Bennington College with a double major in visual arts and
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Other Information |
Nephew of Paul Theroux, author of many travel books.
Cousins are Marcel Theroux, a writer and Louis Theroux, the
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).
Has a younger brother, Sebastian, born in 1989
Academy Award nominee (documentaries) Rachel Grady and her
friend Brooke Jones took Justin Theroux to his first prom in
Washington, D.C. and Justin's journalist mother Phyllis
Theroux reported on their date in the June 5, 1985 New York
Times. |
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