Actor

Stanley Townsend

August 20, 1961 · Dublin, Ireland

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.

Notable work

6.2
Cars 2 (2011)
as Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice)
8.5
Sherlock (2010)
as Angelo
8.3
Andor (2022)
as Commandant Jayhold Beehaz
7.9
In the Name of the Father (1993)
as Hooker's Driver
6.3
The Voices (2014)
as Sheriff Weinbacher
7.8
24 (2001)
as Anatol Stolnavich
6.3
What a Girl Wants (2003)
as Bride's Father
6.7
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
as Phineas Stark
7.3
The Physician (2013)
as Bar Kappara
6.7
The Current War (2018)
as Franklin Pope
6.8
Flawless (2007)
as Henry
6.6
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
as Tramp

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