Justin Theroux

Born in the US capital on August 10, 1971, Justin Paul Theroux is the eldest of the two sons of Eugene, a lawyer at one of the city’s largest law firms, while his mother, Phyllis Grissim Theroux, practiced for many years. as a journalist for the most important newspaper in the area, The Washington Post. The family has always been closely related to artistic creation, especially since Paul Theroux , the actor’s paternal uncle, achieved recognition as a poet and author of novels such as The Mosquito Coast .

He was already convinced in high school of what he wanted to do with his life, so he joined the student theater group. He graduated in Drama and Visual Arts from Bennington College in 1993. It was hard for him to get his head around, as he didn’t get his first piece of paper until three years later, when he appeared as a very minor character, the revolutionary Mark, in I Shot Andy Warhol , which at least served as a calling card for him to get multiple stage roles both on Broadway and off-Broadway, the alternative circuit.

To earn a living, he toured various series, and even had two different roles (a flirt, and a writer) in separate chapters of Sex and the City . He didn’t lack for lesser roles in second-rate movies, like Romy and Michelle ‘s Cowboy . After playing a yuppie in American Psycho , David Lynch became the first filmmaker to bet heavily on him, entrusting him with a role of some importance, the film director Adam Kesher, on whom the mafia tries to impose a leading lady, in his dreamlike Mulholland Drive. There he drew attention, especially since the comic part of the disconcerting film fell on him. Years later, the filmmaker would rescue him for a piece of his inexplicable Inland Empire .

This has not served to give him good roles in the movies, having to be content with one of the villains of excessive Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle , the Miami Grupt cop , and the evil DJ from Zoolander . But he got along well with the protagonist of the latter, Ben Stiller , with whom he wrote – taking advantage of the fact that his family is full of writing professionals – the script for Tropic Thunder: A very bitchy war! . Since then he began a prolific career as a screenwriter, as he has been responsible for the scripts for a superhero film, Iron Man 2 , a musical, Rock of Ages , and the comedyZoolander 2 , again with Stiller at the helm. In 2006 he made his filmmaking debut with the archetypal romantic comedy Dedication , where a misogynistic children’s book writer ( Billy Crudup ) must reluctantly form a tandem with an illustrator ( Mandy Moore ), with whom he is destined to fall in love.

The disastrous comedy Get Me Out of Paradise was along the same lines , with an unemployed couple who join a hippie commune. She routine without grace, at the service of the protagonist Jennifer Aniston , with whom he wanted the destiny that she fell madly in love during the filming. They got engaged in 2012, married in 2015, and during this time he has grown fed up with becoming one of the main targets of the gossip. “It’s shocking how some things become important when there are much more important things going on in the world,” he said. “There is an endless appetite for trash, even though everyone says they don’t have it.”

Although he hadn’t quite caught on, he has continued trying to move forward with his acting career, which has borne its greatest fruit in the field of television. After becoming a mercenary in Alias , he won the hearts of series fans in Six Feet Under , as Joe, the musician neighbor of the uninhibited Brenda ( Rachel Griffiths ), girlfriend of one of the lead morticians. He was convincing as Parks and Recreation lawyer Justin Anderson, who criticizes Jennifer Aniston in one episode , and as a real-life character, merchant-turned-American Revolution hero John Hancock, in John Adams .. The most remembered role of him, police chief and family man Kevin Garvey, whose wife joins a cult, after the disappearance of millions of people in The Leftlovers . “You’re introduced to a bunch of characters that you shouldn’t care about except because something extraordinary happened to them, and as you learn more about them you grow fonder,” Justin Theroux explained. “It is telling the story backwards. If it was a drama or a thriller you would first meet the characters, and then something unusual would happen. Here we have gone against it, we started with a destroyed world, and then we delved into the story of the protagonists”.

Perhaps boosting his career on the big screen is his work as Tom, ex-husband of the neurotic lead in the hit The Girl on the Train , though he jumped on board at the last moment, replacing Chris Evans , who had scheduling problems. “I was very attracted to how the script dealt with the protagonist’s addiction to alcohol, and watching strangers from the train,” he declared. “I have experienced it myself, if you go slowly you can even look inside their houses, which is invasive, because well see her rags hanging.” Next he has been signed by the science fiction specialist Duncan Jones for Mute, where he plays the protagonist, a waiter from the future in search of his missing partner. Everything indicates that he continues to rise …