17 Facts About Marcel Theroux

Marcel Raymond Theroux was born on 13 June 1968 and is an English-American novelist and broadcaster.

Marcel Theroux wrote A Stranger in The Earth and The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2002.

Marcel Theroux has worked in television news in New York City and in Boston.

Marcel Theroux is the elder son of the American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux and his then-wife Anne Castle.

Marcel Theroux's younger brother, Louis Theroux, is a journalist, documentarian, and television presenter.

Marcel Theroux was born in 1968 in Kampala, Uganda, where his American father, Paul Theroux, was teaching at Makerere University.

Marcel Theroux went on to study English literature at Clare College, Cambridge.

Marcel Theroux won a fellowship to study International Relations with a specialisation in Soviet and East European Studies at Yale University.

Marcel Theroux's father, born and raised in the United States, is of half French Canadian and half Italian descent.

From 2000 to 2002, Marcel Theroux presented a series of documentaries for Unreported World.

Marcel Theroux was chosen as presenter because he originally knew nothing about the subject.

Marcel Theroux initially believed that all environmentalists were opposed to technological progress.

Marcel Theroux reached this conclusion partly in response to his interviews with several experts, such as Gerhard Bertz of the insurance agency Munich Re, who said that during the past 20 years, payments for natural disasters have increased by 500 percent.

Marcel Theroux interviewed Royal Dutch Shell chairman Lord Ron Oxburgh.

In March 2006 Marcel Theroux presented Death of a Nation on More4, as part of The State of Russia series.

On 16 March 2009, Marcel Theroux presented In Search of Wabi-sabi on BBC Four, as part of the channel's 'Hidden Japan' season of programming.

Marcel Theroux travelled and reported from Japan to explore the aesthetic tastes of Japan and its people.