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Stuart Townsend (Born: December 15, 1972 in Howth, Co. Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish stage and film actor and boxer.
Like his fellow Irish actor,
Colin Farrell, he attended the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin where he made his non-professional stage debut in the school's production of "Tear Up The Black Sail". His professional stage debut was in 1994's
True Lines, directed by John Crowley - who recently directed Intermission.
True Lines was first performed in Kilkenny however it then moved to the Dublin Theatre Festival and on to Bush Theatre in London.
He got his start in movies with roles in short Irish films such as
Godsuit and Summertime but it wasn't until he landed a part in a 1996 UK / Ireland co-production called
Trojan Eddie that he got into feature length film. In 1997 he took a lead role in the British film Shooting Fish and it was with this part that his career started to take off.
After his appearance as the outrageous seductor in the title role of About Adam he started to be noticed in the US by critics and the public alike. However, in the summer of 2000 he briefly returned to the London stage in Tennessee Williams'
Orpheus Descending, starring himself as Val Xavier and
Helen Mirren as Lady Torrance.
In recent years he has appeared in a number of big budget films such as Queen of the Damned, opposite
Aaliyah, as the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as Dorian Gray.
He currently resides in Los Angeles with his long term girlfriend
Charlize Theron, whom he met while filming Trapped in 2001.
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