Stanley Townsend
Acting
Born 1961-08-20
Dublin, Ireland
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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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Call the Midwife
Sherlock
Andor
Peak Practice
Foyle's War
Hustle
Cars 2
Heartbeat
Spooks
Waking the Dead
Ripper Street
The Hollow Crown
Wire in the Blood
KAOS
Jonathan Creek
Ashes to Ashes
Ballykissangel
The Spy
Jay Kelly
In the Name of the Father
The Physician
The Regime
What a Girl Wants
Fresh Meat
Titanic: Blood and Steel
Becoming Elizabeth
The Current War
Blackshore
Galavant
The Commander
Toast of London
The Uprising
The Voices
One Chance
Flawless
Florence Foster Jenkins
The Libertine
Traitors
Der Medicus
Quirke
Happy-Go-Lucky
Zen
Resistance
Fleming
The Song of Names
Fallen
New Worlds
Murder City
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
The Ambassador
The Nativity Story
Inside I'm Dancing
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Holy Water
Burton and Taylor
The Snapper
Jake's Progress
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