1. Stuart Townsend was born on 15 December 1972 and is an Irish actor.
15 Facts About Stuart Townsend
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Stuart Townsend portrayed Lestat de Lioncourt in the film adaptation of Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned, and Dorian Gray in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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Stuart Townsend attended the Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin, and made his non-professional stage debut in its 1993 production of Colin Teevan's Tear Up The Black Sail.
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Stuart Townsend briefly returned to the London stage in 2000, in the Tennessee Williams play Orpheus Descending, starring as Val Xavier, alongside Helen Mirren as Lady Torrance, before landing roles in several major films.
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Stuart Townsend appeared in Queen of the Damned as the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, and in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as Dorian Gray.
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Stuart Townsend was hired to play the part of Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, but was replaced by Viggo Mortensen the day before principal photography began.
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Stuart Townsend portrayed Carl Kolchak, an investigative reporter looking into his wife's murder.
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Stuart Townsend was set to play Fandral in Kenneth Branagh's Thor, but was replaced in January 2010, due to unspecified creative differences.
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In 2021, Stuart Townsend starred in the films The Martini Shot and Grace and Grit.
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Stuart Townsend's father, Peter, was a golfer who played in the 1969 and 1971 Ryder Cups.
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Stuart Townsend has a brother, Dylan, and sister, Chloe, from his father's first marriage to Lorna Townsend, who died in 1994 of a brain haemorrhage.
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Stuart Townsend has two half-siblings, Hugo and Ella, from his father's second marriage, to Swedish-born Sofia.
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Stuart Townsend dated actress Charlize Theron after meeting her on the set of 2002's Trapped.
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In May 2015, Townsend's brother said that Stuart had settled down in Costa Rica, where he had bought some land and was living with a woman from that country, who was expecting their second child at that time.
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In 2019, Stuart Townsend was living in Santa Monica with his wife and two children, and was arrested after a domestic dispute.