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Celebritology Live: The One Where We Talk About 'Twilight': You've ...

Washington Post - Found Nov. 21, 2008
... the age of 12 who is interested to see if Robert Pattinson will beat out Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Stuart Townsend as the hottest vampire ever?

Posted on November 21, 2008, 3:35 am

Mary-Kate, Charlize, and Lindsay Will Cross an Ocean to Party

POPSUGAR - Insanely addictive. - Found Nov. 20, 2008
... crew, which included Mary-Kate Olsen all draped in white, Gerard Butler, Charlize Theron, and Stuart Townsend, was treated to dinner and an...

Posted on November 20, 2008, 4:30 am

Stuart Townsend on Strife Between Charlize Theron and Michelle ...

The National Ledger - Pop Culture - Found Sep. 26, 2008
Stuart Townsend shrugs off a report that his girlfriend, Charlize Theron, was disappointed over one of the parts in his "Battle in Seattle" film

Posted on September 26, 2008, 10:40 am

Charlize Theron on Working with Boyfriend Stuart Townsend

Entertainment Tonight: Topstories - Found Sep. 18, 2008
ET's with Charlize Theron for the relationship dish about acting for longtime boyfriend Stuart Townsend in 'Battle in Seattle,' Charlize's new drama

Posted on September 18, 2008, 6:00 am

Stuart Townsend's 'Battle in Seattle'

Los Angeles Times - Found Sep. 25, 2008
STUART TOWNSEND has often played the pretty boy, in roles ranging from the garden-variety cad in 2007's 'Chaos Theory' to supernatural heartbreakers

Posted on September 25, 2008, 5:47 am

Stuart Townsend on Battle in Seattle

About - Found Sep. 27, 2008
Stuart Townsend makes his directorial debut with Battle in Seattle, based on the riots that broke out during the 1999 World Trade Organization's

Posted on September 27, 2008, 6:45 am

REVIEW | Don't Worry, Be Angry: Stuart Townsend's "Battle in ...

Indiewire - Found Sep. 16, 2008
Convention, it will be difficult for some of us to criticize a film like '.' For many, Stuart Townsend's ensemble fictionalization of the 1999...

Posted on September 16, 2008, 1:19 pm

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AFL-CIO - Found Sep. 19, 2008
Partners Many Ways to Solidarity Charters Membership Benefits Organizing Institute By Actor/director Stuart Townsend wrote and directed the...

Posted on September 19, 2008, 9:20 am

Ange throws knives as Jennifer flashes

Sydney Morning Herald - Found 10 hours ago
... opening in Dubai over a week ago, to wonder, 'Why?' Similarly, Charlize Theron and her partner Stuart Townsend, also present at the resort...

Posted on December 1, 2008, 9:41 am

Jamie digs Charlize Theron

Daily Telegraph Australia - Found 12 hours ago
While he could not elaborate about the top-secret garden, he did reveal Theron and her beau Stuart Townsend were loving his work on what has...

Posted on December 1, 2008, 7:35 am

Stuart Townsend Biography

Stuart Townsend
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Stuart Townsend

Townsend at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Born Stuart Peter Townsend
December 15, 1972 (1972-12-15) (age 35)
Howth, County Dublin, Ireland

Stuart Townsend (born on December 15, 1972 in Howth, County Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish actor.

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Career

Townsend 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 later directed Intermission. True Lines was first performed in Kilkenny; it later moved to the Dublin Theatre Festival and on to Bush Theatre in London.

Townsend's early movie roles were in Irish short films such as "Godsuit" and "Summertime". His first part in a feature length film was Trojan Eddie, a 1996 UK/Irish co-production. In 1997 he landed a lead role in the British film Shooting Fish.

After his appearance as the outrageous seducer in the title role of About Adam, he started to be noticed in the United States by critics and the public alike. In mid-2000, he briefly returned to the London stage in the Tennessee Williams play Orpheus Descending, starring as Val Xavier, alongside Helen Mirren as Lady Torrance.

In recent years he has appeared in big budget films including Queen of the Damned, opposite Aaliyah, as the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt; and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as Dorian Gray.

Townsend was hired to play the part of Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, but was replaced the day before principal photography began.1. According to Townsend:1

I was there rehearsing and training for two months, then was fired the day before filming began. After that I was told they wouldn't pay me because I was in breach of contract due to not having worked long enough. I had been having a rough time with them, so I was almost relieved to be leaving until they told me I wouldn't be paid. I have no good feelings for those people in charge, I really don't. The director wanted me and then apparently thought better of it because he really wanted someone 20 years older than me and completely different.

In 2005 Townsend starred alongside Gabrielle Union in Night Stalker, the remake of the 1974 ABC TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. He played the part of Carl Kolchak, an investigative reporter looking into his wife's murder. Night Stalker was abruptly cancelled by ABC after six episodes due to bad viewing figures. Again, he was cited as "too young" by many reviewers and fans of the original series comparing him to Darren McGavin in the original series.

The same year Townsend played a guest starring role on NBC's Will and Grace as the pansexual pastry chef of Karen Walker who seduces her, Will Truman, and later Karen's maid Rosario. He also made an uncredited cameo in 2005's live-action Æon Flux film. Townsend recently starred alongside Ryan Reynolds in the comedy Chaos Theory.

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Personal life

Townsend's father, Peter, was a golfer, who played in the 1969 and 1971 Ryder Cups.2 His brother Dylan Townsend is a professional model.

Townsend has been with actress Charlize Theron since meeting her on the set of 2002's Trapped. The couple live together in Los Angeles and England. They consider themselves married without an actual marriage. "We didn't have a ceremony," he added. "I don't need a certificate or the state or the church to say otherwise. So no there's no big official story on a wedding, but we are married. ... I consider her my wife and she considers me her husband."3

References

  1. ^ a b Interview with the Vampire, a February 22, 2002 article from Entertainment Weekly
  2. ^ Wills, Dominic. "Stuart Townsend Biography". Film biographies. Tiscali. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
  3. ^ Chi, Paul. "Stuart Townsend Calls Charlize Theron His Wife". People Magazine. Retrieved on 2007-09-13.

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