- Born
- Birth nameJustin Paul Theroux
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Justin was born and raised in Washington, DC, the son of Phyllis
(Grissim), a writer for The Washington Post, and Eugene Theroux, a
corporate lawyer. He is a nephew of writer
Paul Theroux and a cousin of journalists
Louis Theroux and
Marcel Theroux. His father is of
French-Canadian and Italian descent, and his mother has English and
German ancestry. Theroux graduated from Bennington College with a
Bachelor of Arts degree. He then moved to New York City to pursue a career
in the visual arts, but soon found himself immersed in stage acting. He
starred in numerous off Broadway plays before his feature film career
began. Justin's film career includes work both in front of and behind the camera as writer, director & actor. He has written on several high-profile films such as Iron Man 2, Tropic Thunder, and Rock of Ages. He lives in Los Angeles, estranged from wife, Jennifer Aniston.- IMDb Mini Biography By: NL
- SpouseJennifer Aniston(August 5, 2015 - 2018) (divorced)
- ParentsPhyllis GrissimEugene Theroux
- RelativesPaul Theroux(Aunt or Uncle)Marcel Theroux(Cousin)Louis Theroux(Cousin)Louis Theroux(Aunt or Uncle)
- Often cast as the romantic rival who improbably bests the protagonist at almost everything
- Thick eyebrows
- Guest-starred in a number of episodes of Parks and Recreation (2009). In an episode, his love interest talks about Jennifer Aniston picking the wrong guys. Ironically, Jennifer Aniston is Theroux's wife.
- Became engaged to Jennifer Aniston on his birthday, August 10, 2012.
- Cousins are Marcel Theroux, a writer and Louis Theroux, the actor, writer and journalist who makes television programs for the BBC.
- 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. - Nephew of Paul Theroux, author of many travel books.
- It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars,
you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his
movies, you can't fully get really lost in them. - I watched the movie Cast Away (2000). It's a perfectly fine movie. But you can
never fully believe that movie. How can we believe this man is being
cast away? We know it's Tom Hanks and we know the color of his couch in
his house in L.A. because we saw a picture of it in People magazine.
His celebrity has corrupted his art form. - All the stuff with the World Trade Organization, the kids in Seattle
throwing a bricks through Starbucks windows - I see it as a good thing.
It's saying, like "F--k you." As long as no one's killing one another,
I don't think there's anything wrong with throwing a brick through the
window of McDonalds. I'm sort of inspired when I see people thinking
like that. - If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself.
It's a TV show - selling cars, cereal, soda pop. TV is like that. The
shows are incidental to the commercials. I always laugh when TV shows
pat themselves on the back for being cutting-edge. I mean, an
interracial kiss on Ally McBeal (1997) is cutting-edge? I've never been shocked by
anything on television, except the news. - I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I was ambitious about quality, but I wasn't ambitious in the "I've got to get a pilot!" way.
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