Stuart Townsend is an Irish actor and boxer. His
father is a Protestant and his mother is a Catholic,
and he was raised Catholic (in his mother's faith).
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 United States by critics and the
public alike. However, in the summer of 2000 he
briefly returned to the London stage in the
Tennessee Williams play 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
the late 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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