
Stanley Townsend
Biography
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.
TV Shows(30)

Blackshore
Bill McGuire

The Regime
Emil Bartos

KAOS
President Minos

Becoming Elizabeth
Anthony Denny

Andor
Commandant Jayhold Beehaz

Resistance
Senator Daniel Shea

The Spy
General Ad-Din

Traitors
Henry

Galavant
King of Valencia

Quirke
Inspector Hackett

Fleming
Colonel William Donovan

New Worlds
Colonel Blood

Der Medicus
Bar Kappara

Toast of London

Titanic: Blood and Steel
Rex Riley

Ripper Street
Aiden Galvin

Call the Midwife
Father Joe

The Hollow Crown
Warwick

Zen
Moscati

Fresh Meat
John Frobisher