

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...
Highest rated appearances
as Bar Kappara

National Theatre Live: Retrograde
as Mr Parks

The Song of Names
as Gilbert

Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
as Sir Constance

A Girl from Mogadishu
as Joe Costello

National Theatre Live: All About Eve
as Addison Dewett

Psychomanteum
as Narrator

The Current War
as Franklin Pope

Florence Foster Jenkins
as Phineas Stark

Standby
as Paul

National Theatre Live: King Lear
as The Earl of Kent

The Voices
as Sheriff Weinbacher

The Physician
as Bar Kappara

One Chance
as Luciano Pavarotti

Lovely Louise
as Bill

Burton and Taylor
as Milton Katselas

Cars 2
as Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice)

Killing Bono
as Danny Machin

The Pizza Miracle
as Gianni

Holy Water
as Inspector Brian Hogan

National Theatre Live: Phèdre
as Theseus

Hilde
as David O. Selznick

Happy-Go-Lucky
as Tramp

Flawless
as Henry

Saddam's Tribe
as Saddam

The Nativity Story
as Zechariah

Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott
as Narrator

Isolation
as Garda Hourigan

Omagh
as Sam Pollock

Dot.Kill
as Capt. Tommy Byrnes

Fallen
as Mara

Inside I'm Dancing
as Interview Panelist

The Libertine
as Keown

Wondrous Oblivion
as Victor

Mystics
as Mickey Mac

Byron
as Turkish Governor

What a Girl Wants
as Bride's Father

Monsieur N.
as Dr. O'Meara

Station Jim
as Matapan

Rat
as Newsreader
Altmann's Tongue
as Narrator