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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1961-08-20
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- school Known for: Acting
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6.6
Happy-Go-Lucky
2008-04-18
7
The Nativity Story
2006-11-30
5.9
The Libertine
2004-09-16
6.7
Wondrous Oblivion
2004-04-23
4.2
Dot.Kill
2005-03-08
5.5
Isolation
2005-09-10
6.7
Flawless
2007-09-01
0
Altmann's Tongue
2000-05-02
7.8
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
2009-06-25
5.8
Holy Water
2009-07-01
6.3
Monsieur N.
2003-01-15
6.3
Killing Bono
2011-04-01
8.4
My Friend Joe
1996-08-29
5.3
Mystics
2003-12-12
5
The Pizza Miracle
2010-06-18
5.9
The Miracle
1991-04-05
6.3
Burton and Taylor
2013-07-22
0
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
2022-02-01
1
Psychomanteum
2018-07-26
5.3
Lovely Louise
2013-09-05
7
The Teacher
2024-05-16
5.6
Taffin
1988-02-26
6
Standby
2014-11-14
6.3
The Voices
2014-01-19
6.2
Cars 2
2011-06-11
6.1
Rat
2000-10-06
0
Beyond Reason
1995-01-01
7.9
In the Name of the Father
1993-12-12
7.3
The Physician
2013-12-25
6
Fallen
2004-11-30
5.4
Hilde
2009-03-11
4.6
Byron
2003-09-27
6.7
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016-05-06
7
Station Jim
2001-12-30
6.3
What a Girl Wants
2003-03-27
6.4
Omagh
2005-03-23
7.1
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2014-05-01
8.5
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019-03-11
6.4
The Van
1996-11-29
6.4
The Snapper
1993-08-06
7.5
Inside I'm Dancing
2004-10-15
6.7
The Current War
2018-02-01
6.6
One Chance
2013-09-09
5.8
A Girl From Mogadishu
2019-11-14
6.7
The Song of Names
2019-12-25
5.8
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
2019-12-15
0
Ink
1988-01-01
0
Saddam's Tribe
2007-05-09
0
Another Turn of the Screw
0
Kinked
2023-03-11
0
One Night Only
7
Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott
2006-08-01
7.1
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012-05-13
7
Heartbeat
1992-04-10
7.7
Spooks
2002-05-13
8.6
Sherlock
2010-07-25
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24
6.6
The Commander
2003-02-16
7.3
Zen
2011-01-02
5.8
Quirke
2014-02-16
7.3
Galavant
2015-01-04
7.2
Murder City
2004-03-17
6.9
Ballykissangel
1996-02-11
7.1
Fresh Meat
2011-09-21
7.6
Hustle
2004-02-24
7.5
Toast of London
2013-10-20
6.1
Peak Practice
1993-05-10
6
The Ambassador
1998-01-04
7.5
Jonathan Creek
1997-05-09
7.3
Waking the Dead
2001-06-18
7.8
Wire in the Blood
2002-11-14
6.8
Becoming Elizabeth
2022-06-12
7.4
Ripper Street
2012-12-30
6.9
Fleming
2014-01-29
3.5
Jake's Progress
1995-10-12
7.5
Call the Midwife
2012-01-15
0
Whistleblower
2008-08-31
6.7
Blackshore
2024-02-04
6.2
The Regime
2024-03-03
6.2
Resistance
2019-01-06
8.3
Andor
2022-09-21
7.3
The Hollow Crown
2012-06-30
7.4
The Spy
2019-09-06
7.3
KAOS
2024-08-29
7.9
Foyle's War
2002-10-27