Justin Paul Theroux is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. Theroux is best known for his work with director David Lynch appearing in two of his films: Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire. Theroux was born in Washington, D.C. His mother, Phyllis , is a journalist and author who worked for the Washington Post, and his father, Eugene Theroux, is a corporate lawyer. Theroux is the nephew of the travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux, novelist and poet Alexander Theroux, author Peter Theroux, and novelist and educator Joseph Theroux; he is the cousin of British journalists and... documentary film makers Louis Theroux and Marcel Theroux. His father is of half French Canadian and half Italian descent. Through his mother, Theroux is a great-great-grandson of financier, banker, and railroad magnate H. B. Hollins, and of music critic and author Gustav Kobbé. He graduated from The Field School and Bennington College. Theroux made his film debut in 1996, in Mary Harron's I Shot Andy Warhol.
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