Stanley Townsend
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1961-08-20
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
Stanley Townsend
Biography
Stanley Townsend (born August 1961) is an Irish actor. Townsend was born and brought up in Dublin. After attending Wesley College, Dublin, he studied mathematics and civil engineering at Trinity College. While there he joined the Dublin University Players, the college's Amateur Dramatic Society. He later co-founded co-operative theatre company Rough Magic with writer/director Declan Hughes and theatre director Lynne Parker, performing in numerous productions including The Country Wife, Nightshade, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He subsequently went on to perform in several productions at The Gate and The Abbey Theatres in Dublin. In London, he has worked with such directors as Sam Mendes in The Plough and the Stars, Richard Eyre in Guys and Dolls and Rufus Norris in Under the Blue Sky. Theatre appearances at the Royal Court include The Alice Trilogy directed by Ian Rickson and Shining City directed by Conor McPherson, for which he won an Irish Theatre Award and was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor in 2004. Townsend's television work began on a number of shows for RTÉ in Dublin. Since moving to London, television appearances have included Spooks, The Commander, Hustle, Waking the Dead, and Omagh Bombing. ilm credits include Mike Newell's Into the West, Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father with Daniel Day-Lewis, The Van by Stephen Frears, Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, The Libertine with Johnny Depp, Paul Morrison's Wondrous Oblivion with Delroy Lindo, John Boorman's The Tiger's Tale and Michael Radford's Flawless. He currently lives in London.
Also Known For
Happy-Go-Lucky
Apr 18, 2008
The Nativity Story
Nov 30, 2006
The Libertine
Sep 16, 2004
Wondrous Oblivion
Apr 23, 2004
Dot.Kill
Mar 08, 2005
Isolation
Sep 10, 2005
Flawless
Sep 01, 2007
Altmann's Tongue
May 02, 2000
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
Jun 25, 2009
Holy Water
Jul 01, 2009
Monsieur N.
Jan 15, 2003
Killing Bono
Apr 01, 2011
My Friend Joe
Aug 29, 1996
Mystics
Dec 12, 2003
The Pizza Miracle
Jun 18, 2010
The Miracle
Apr 05, 1991
Burton and Taylor
Jul 22, 2013
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
Feb 01, 2022
Psychomanteum
Jul 26, 2018
Lovely Louise
Sep 05, 2013
The Teacher
May 16, 2024
Taffin
Feb 26, 1988
Standby
Nov 14, 2014
The Voices
Jan 19, 2014
Cars 2
Jun 11, 2011
Rat
Oct 06, 2000
Beyond Reason
Jan 01, 1995
In the Name of the Father
Dec 12, 1993
The Physician
Dec 25, 2013
Fallen
Nov 30, 2004
Hilde
Mar 11, 2009
Byron
Sep 27, 2003
Florence Foster Jenkins
May 06, 2016
Station Jim
Dec 30, 2001
What a Girl Wants
Mar 27, 2003
Omagh
Mar 23, 2005
National Theatre Live: King Lear
May 01, 2014
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Mar 11, 2019
The Van
Nov 29, 1996
The Snapper
Aug 06, 1993
Inside I'm Dancing
Oct 15, 2004
The Current War
Feb 01, 2018
One Chance
Sep 09, 2013
A Girl From Mogadishu
Nov 14, 2019
The Song of Names
Dec 25, 2019
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
Dec 15, 2019
Ink
Jan 01, 1988
Saddam's Tribe
May 09, 2007
Another Turn of the Screw
Kinked
Mar 11, 2023
One Night Only
Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott
Aug 01, 2006
National Theatre Live: Retrograde
Titanic: Blood and Steel
May 13, 2012
Heartbeat
Apr 10, 1992
Spooks
May 13, 2002
Sherlock
Jul 25, 2010
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
The Commander
Feb 16, 2003
Zen
Jan 02, 2011
Quirke
Feb 16, 2014
Galavant
Jan 04, 2015
Murder City
Mar 17, 2004
Ballykissangel
Feb 11, 1996
Fresh Meat
Sep 21, 2011
Hustle
Feb 24, 2004
Toast of London
Oct 20, 2013
Peak Practice
May 10, 1993
The Ambassador
Jan 04, 1998
Jonathan Creek
May 09, 1997
Waking the Dead
Jun 18, 2001
Wire in the Blood
Nov 14, 2002
Becoming Elizabeth
Jun 12, 2022
Ripper Street
Dec 30, 2012
Fleming
Jan 29, 2014
Jake's Progress
Oct 12, 1995
Call the Midwife
Jan 15, 2012
Whistleblower
Aug 31, 2008
Blackshore
Feb 04, 2024
The Regime
Mar 03, 2024
Resistance
Jan 06, 2019
Andor
Sep 21, 2022
The Hollow Crown
Jun 30, 2012
The Spy
Sep 06, 2019
KAOS
Aug 29, 2024
