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Justin Theroux (born August 10, 1971) is an American actor, screenwriter and director.

Theroux was born in Washington, DC. His mother, Phyllis Theroux (nee Grissim), is a journalist and author, and 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., and began acting while attending Buxton School, a boarding school in Williamstown, MA.

He graduated from Bennington College with a B.A. in visual arts and drama.

Theroux made his film debut in 1996, in Mary Harron’s I Shot Andy Warhol. Since then, he has performed both on Broadway, starring in the acclaimed Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, numerous off-Broadway productions, and in comedies, such as Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, The Baxter, Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion, Broken Hearts Club and Zoolander