Stanley Townsend

Known for ActingBorn 1961-08-20 (age 64)Dublin, Ireland

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

National Theatre Live: Retrograde

Ink

National Theatre Live: All About Eve

Sherlock

Andor

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Beyond Reason

Wire in the Blood

National Theatre Live: Phèdre

In the Name of the Father

Foyle's War

24

Ashes to Ashes

Hustle

Spooks

Murder City

Call the Midwife

The Hollow Crown

Toast of London

Ripper Street

The Spy

Fallen

KAOS

Station Jim

Inside I'm Dancing

Galavant

Jonathan Creek

The Physician

Titanic: Blood and Steel

Fresh Meat

Waking the Dead

Zen

My Friend Joe

National Theatre Live: King Lear

Ballykissangel

Heartbeat

Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott

The Nativity Story

Fleming

Blackshore

The Song of Names

The Current War

Becoming Elizabeth

Flawless

Florence Foster Jenkins

One Chance

Happy-Go-Lucky