Stanley Townsend
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.
Born: 20 August 1961
Played In
The Uprising
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
Harry Conway
Jay Kelly
First Voice (voice)
National Theatre Live: Retrograde
Mr Parks
KAOS
President Minos
The Teacher
Simon Cohen
The Regime
Emil Bartos
Blackshore
Bill McGuire
Kinked
Andor
Commandant Jayhold Beehaz
Becoming Elizabeth
Anthony Denny
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
Narrator
The Song of Names
Gilbert
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
Sir Constance
A Girl from Mogadishu
Joe Costello
The Spy
General Ad-Din
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Addison Dewett
Traitors
Henry
Resistance
Senator Daniel Shea
Psychomanteum
Narrator
The Current War
Franklin Pope
Florence Foster Jenkins
Phineas Stark
Galavant
King of Valencia
Der Medicus
Bar Kappara
Standby
Paul
National Theatre Live: King Lear
The Earl of Kent
New Worlds
Colonel Blood
Quirke
Inspector Hackett
Fleming
Colonel William Donovan
The Voices
Sheriff Weinbacher
The Physician
Bar Kappara
Toast of London
One Chance
Luciano Pavarotti
Lovely Louise
Bill
Burton and Taylor
Milton Katselas
Ripper Street
Aiden Galvin
The Hollow Crown
Warwick
Titanic: Blood and Steel
Rex Riley
Call the Midwife
Father Joe
Fresh Meat
John Frobisher
Cars 2
Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice)
Killing Bono
Danny Machin
Zen
Moscati
Sherlock
Angelo
The Pizza Miracle
Gianni
Holy Water
Inspector Brian Hogan
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
Theseus
Hilde
David O. Selznick
Whistleblower
Michael Neary
Happy-Go-Lucky
Tramp
Ashes to Ashes
Sacks
Flawless
Henry
Saddam's Tribe
Saddam
The Nativity Story
Zechariah
Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott
Narrator
Isolation
Garda Hourigan
Omagh
Sam Pollock
Dot.Kill
Capt. Tommy Byrnes
Fallen
Mara
Inside I'm Dancing
Interview Panelist
The Libertine
Keown
Wondrous Oblivion
Victor
Murder City
Hustle
Johnny Keyes
Mystics
Mickey Mac
Byron
Turkish Governor
What a Girl Wants
Bride's Father
The Commander
Monsieur N.
Dr. O'Meara
Wire in the Blood
Foyle's War
Jose De Perez
Spooks
Roy Woodring
Station Jim
Matapan
24
Anatol Stolnavich
Waking the Dead
DI Bailey
Rat
Newsreader
Altmann's Tongue
Narrator
The Ambassador
Jonathan Creek
Det. Inspector Barrison
The Van
Des, Health Inspector
My Friend Joe
Mr. Doyle
Ballykissangel
Micky Keeler
Jake's Progress
Consultant
Beyond Reason
John Horan
In the Name of the Father
Hooker's Driver
The Snapper
Anaesthetist
Peak Practice
Keith Johnson
Heartbeat
Igor Saukas
The Miracle
Washington, Destry Rides Again
Taffin
Les
Ink
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Constable
Another Turn of the Screw
Henry James