Stanley Townsend
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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.
Known for
Credits
Cars 2 (2011)
as Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice)
The Uprising (2026)
Actor
Flawless (2007)
as Henry
The Physician (2013)
as Bar Kappara
The Current War (2018)
as Franklin Pope
In the Name of the Father (1993)
as Hooker's Driver
The Libertine (2004)
as Keown
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
as Tramp
What a Girl Wants (2003)
as Bride's Father
Jay Kelly (2025)
as First Voice (voice)
The Voices (2014)
as Sheriff Weinbacher
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema (2026)
as Harry Conway
One Chance (2013)
as Luciano Pavarotti
Golden Boy (—)
Actor
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
as Phineas Stark
Burton and Taylor (2013)
as Milton Katselas
The Song of Names (2019)
as Gilbert
Inside I'm Dancing (2004)
as Interview Panelist
The Nativity Story (2006)
as Zechariah
Killing Bono (2011)
as Danny Machin
Fallen (2004)
as Mara
The Snapper (1993)
as Anaesthetist
Rat (2000)
as Newsreader
Taffin (1988)
as Les
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (2019)
as Sir Constance
Holy Water (2009)
as Inspector Brian Hogan
Byron (2003)
as Turkish Governor
Psychomanteum (2018)
as Narrator
Isolation (2005)
as Garda Hourigan
A Girl from Mogadishu (2019)
as Joe Costello
Omagh (2005)
as Sam Pollock
My Friend Joe (1996)
as Mr. Doyle
The Van (1996)
as Des, Health Inspector
Dot.Kill (2005)
as Capt. Tommy Byrnes
The Pizza Miracle (2010)
as Gianni
Another Turn of the Screw (—)
as Henry James
The Miracle (1991)
as Washington, Destry Rides Again
National Theatre Live: King Lear (2014)
as The Earl of Kent
Monsieur N. (2003)
as Dr. O'Meara
Hilde (2009)
as David O. Selznick
Wondrous Oblivion (2004)
as Victor
The Teacher (2024)
as Simon Cohen
National Theatre Live: Phèdre (2009)
as Theseus
Station Jim (2001)
as Matapan
National Theatre Live: All About Eve (2019)
as Addison Dewett
Standby (2014)
as Paul
National Theatre Live: Retrograde (2025)
as Mr Parks
Beyond Reason (1995)
as John Horan
Mystics (2003)
as Mickey Mac
Altmann's Tongue (2000)
as Narrator
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye (2022)
as Narrator
Saddam's Tribe (2007)
as Saddam
Ink (1988)
Actor
Lovely Louise (2013)
as Bill
Kinked (2023)
Actor
Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott (2006)
as Narrator