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.
Fotos
Películas (57)
National Theatre Live: Golden Boy
2026 · Mr. Bonaparte
El hombre que desafió al rey
2026 · Chief Justice Belknap
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
2026 · Harry Conway
Jay Kelly
2025 · First Voice (voice)
National Theatre Live: Retrograde
2025 · Mr Parks
The Teacher
2024 · Simon Cohen
Kinked
2023
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
2022 · Narrator
The Song of Names
2019 · Gilbert
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
2019 · Sir Constance
A Girl from Mogadishu
2019 · Joe Costello
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019 · Addison Dewett
Psychomanteum
2018 · Narrator
The Current War
2018 · Franklin Pope
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 · Phineas Stark
Standby
2014 · Paul
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2014 · The Earl of Kent
The Voices
2014 · Sheriff Weinbacher
The Physician
2013 · Bar Kappara
One Chance
2013 · Luciano Pavarotti
Lovely Louise
2013 · Bill
Burton and Taylor
2013 · Milton Katselas
Cars 2
2011 · Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice)
Killing Bono
2011 · Danny Machin
The Pizza Miracle
2010 · Gianni
Holy Water
2009 · Inspector Brian Hogan
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
2009 · Theseus
Hilde
2009 · David O. Selznick
Happy-Go-Lucky
2008 · Tramp
Flawless
2007 · Henry
Saddam's Tribe
2007 · Saddam
The Nativity Story
2006 · Zechariah
Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott
2006 · Narrator
Isolation
2005 · Garda Hourigan
Omagh
2005 · Sam Pollock
Dot.Kill
2005 · Capt. Tommy Byrnes
Fallen
2004 · Mara
Inside I'm Dancing
2004 · Interview Panelist
The Libertine
2004 · Keown
Wondrous Oblivion
2004 · Victor
Mystics
2003 · Mickey Mac
Byron
2003 · Turkish Governor
What a Girl Wants
2003 · Bride's Father
Monsieur N.
2003 · Dr. O'Meara
Station Jim
2001 · Matapan
Rat
2000 · Newsreader
Altmann's Tongue
2000 · Narrator
The Van
1996 · Des, Health Inspector
My Friend Joe
1996 · Mr. Doyle
Beyond Reason
1995 · John Horan
In the Name of the Father
1993 · Hooker's Driver
The Snapper
1993 · Anaesthetist
The Miracle
1991 · Washington, Destry Rides Again
Taffin
1988 · Les
Ink
1988
Another Turn of the Screw
· Henry James
The Life of Reilly
Series (42)
Kaos
2024 · President Minos
Los caballeros
2024 · Pat Gallagher
El régimen
2024 · Emil Bartos
Blackshore
2024 · Bill McGuire
Andor
2022 · Commandant Jayhold Beehaz
Becoming Elizabeth
2022 · Anthony Denny
The Spy
2019 · General Ad-Din
Traitors
2019 · Henry
Resistance
2019 · Senator Daniel Shea
Galavant
2015 · King of Valencia
Der Medicus
2014 · Bar Kappara
New Worlds
2014 · Colonel Blood
Quirke
2014 · Inspector Hackett
Fleming
2014 · Colonel William Donovan
Toast of London
2013
Ripper Street
2012 · Aiden Galvin
The Hollow Crown
2012 · Warwick
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012 · Rex Riley
Call the Midwife
2012 · Father Joe
Fresh Meat
2011 · John Frobisher
Zen
2011 · Moscati
Sherlock
2010 · Angelo
Whistleblower
2008 · Michael Neary
Ashes to Ashes
2008 · Sacks
Murder City
2004
Hustle
2004 · Johnny Keyes
Coming Up
2003 · Yevgeny Sukhov
The Commander
2003
Wire in the Blood
2002
Foyle's War
2002 · Jose De Perez
Spooks
2002 · Roy Woodring
24
2001 · Anatol Stolnavich
Waking the Dead
2001 · DI Bailey
Best of Both Worlds
2001 · Paddy
The Ambassador
1998
Jonathan Creek
1997 · Det. Inspector Barrison
Ballykissangel
1996 · Micky Keeler
Jake's Progress
1995 · Consultant
Peak Practice
1993 · Keith Johnson
Heartbeat
1992 · Igor Saukas
Parnell & the Englishwoman
1991 · Thomas Sexton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Constable