sentences:  He is the brother of novelist Paul Theroux and uncle of documentarian Louis Theroux, novelist Marcel Theroux, and actor Justin Theroux.Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the son of Catholic parents; his mother, Anne (born Dittami), was Italian American, and his father, Albert Eugene Theroux, was French Canadian.His mother was a grammar school teacher and his father was a salesman for the American Leather Oak company.