Acting
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.
24
2001 · TV
Call the Midwife
2012 · TV
Sherlock
2010 · TV
Andor
2022 · TV
Heartbeat
1992 · TV
Peak Practice
1993 · TV
Spooks
2002 · TV
Foyle's War
2002 · TV
Waking the Dead
2001 · TV
Cars 2
2011 · Movie
Hustle
2004 · TV
Ripper Street
2012 · TV
Jonathan Creek
1997 · TV
The Hollow Crown
2012 · TV
Wire in the Blood
2002 · TV
KAOS
2024 · TV
Ballykissangel
1996 · TV
The Spy
2019 · TV
Fresh Meat
2011 · TV
Ashes to Ashes
2008 · TV
The Regime
2024 · TV
The Physician
2013 · Movie
Galavant
2015 · TV
Toast of London
2013 · TV
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012 · TV
The Uprising
2026 · Movie
In the Name of the Father
1993 · Movie
New Worlds
2014 · TV
Blackshore
2024 · TV
The Commander
2003 · TV
Becoming Elizabeth
2022 · TV
What a Girl Wants
2003 · Movie
Der Medicus
2014 · TV
The Current War
2018 · Movie
The Ambassador
1998 · TV
Traitors
2019 · TV
Flawless
2007 · Movie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · TV
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 · Movie
Jay Kelly
2025 · Movie
Murder City
2004 · TV
The Voices
2014 · Movie
Resistance
2019 · TV
Quirke
2014 · TV
Fleming
2014 · TV
Happy-Go-Lucky
2008 · Movie
The Libertine
2004 · Movie
Zen
2011 · TV
The Nativity Story
2006 · Movie
Inside I'm Dancing
2004 · Movie
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
2026 · Movie
The Song of Names
2019 · Movie
One Chance
2013 · Movie
Burton and Taylor
2013 · Movie
Jake's Progress
1995 · TV
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
2019 · Movie
Isolation
2005 · Movie
The Snapper
1993 · Movie
Taffin
1988 · Movie
Killing Bono
2011 · Movie
Fallen
2004 · Movie
The Teacher
2024 · Movie
Psychomanteum
2018 · Movie
Rat
2000 · Movie
Holy Water
2009 · Movie
Whistleblower
2008 · TV
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2014 · Movie
A Girl from Mogadishu
2019 · Movie
Omagh
2005 · Movie
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019 · Movie
The Van
1996 · Movie
Wondrous Oblivion
2004 · Movie
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
2009 · Movie
Monsieur N.
2003 · Movie
Dot.Kill
2005 · Movie
Byron
2003 · Movie
Station Jim
2001 · Movie
My Friend Joe
1996 · Movie
The Miracle
1991 · Movie
The Pizza Miracle
2010 · Movie
Hilde
2009 · Movie
Standby
2014 · Movie
Lovely Louise
2013 · Movie
National Theatre Live: Retrograde
2025 · Movie
Saddam's Tribe
2007 · Movie
Mystics
2003 · Movie
Ink
1988 · Movie
Beyond Reason
1995 · Movie
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
2022 · Movie
Kinked
2023 · Movie
Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott
2006 · Movie
