
Stanley Townsend
Known for: Acting
Born: August 20, 1961
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, Nightshad…
Known for

The Pizza Miracle
2010

Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
2022
Another Turn of the Screw

Ink
1988

Saddam's Tribe
2007

Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott
2006

National Theatre Live: Retrograde
2025

Wondrous Oblivion
2004

Psychomanteum
2018

Lovely Louise
2013

Standby
2014

Dot.Kill
2005
Altmann's Tongue
2000

My Friend Joe
1996

The Teacher
2024

Happy-Go-Lucky
2008

Burton and Taylor
2013

The Libertine
2004

Mystics
2003

Fallen
2004

Florence Foster Jenkins
2016

Kinked
2023

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
2026

The Nativity Story
2006

Isolation
2005

The Voices
2014

A Girl from Mogadishu
2019

National Theatre Live: Phèdre
2009

Omagh
2005

National Theatre Live: King Lear
2014

The Current War
2018

Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
2019
Golden Boy

Holy Water
2009

Inside I'm Dancing
2004

Rat
2000

The Physician
2013

National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019

The Song of Names
2019

The Uprising
2026

Monsieur N.
2003

Hilde
2009

One Chance
2013

Killing Bono
2011

Flawless
2007

Beyond Reason
1995
Station Jim
2001

What a Girl Wants
2003

Byron
2003

Jay Kelly
2025

The Miracle
1991

The Van
1996

The Snapper
1993

Cars 2
2011

Taffin
1988

In the Name of the Father
1993

Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012

Heartbeat
1992

Spooks
2002

Sherlock
2010

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

The Commander
2003

Zen
2011

Quirke
2014

Galavant
2015

Murder City
2004

Ballykissangel
1996

Hustle
2004

Toast of London
2013

Peak Practice
1993

The Ambassador
1998

Jonathan Creek
1997

Waking the Dead
2001

Wire in the Blood
2002

Becoming Elizabeth
2022

Ripper Street
2012

Fleming
2014

Jake's Progress
1995

Call the Midwife
2012

Whistleblower
2008

Blackshore
2024

The Regime
2024

Resistance
2019

Andor
2022

The Hollow Crown
2012

The Spy
2019

KAOS
2024

Foyle's War
2002

24
2001

New Worlds
2014

Fresh Meat
2011

Ashes to Ashes
2008

Der Medicus
2014

Traitors
2019