Stuart Townsend

スチュアート・タウンゼント　/　すちゅあーと・たうんぜんと

American actor

December 15, 1972 (age 53)　・　Howth, County Dublin, Ireland

County Dublin
actor
film director
screenwriter

My Take

Stuart Townsend is one of those actors who feels perpetually underrated, and I genuinely can't figure out why Hollywood never fully committed to him. The guy had the brooding charisma to pull off Lestat de Lioncourt in Queen of the Damned and the effortless cool to make Dorian Gray genuinely menacing in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen — two roles that required a very specific kind of dark magnetism that not everyone can pull off. Growing up in Howth on the Irish coast clearly gave him something weathered and real. And the fact that he didn't just stay in front of the camera — directing Battle in Seattle showed he actually had something to say. He's one of those talents who deserved a much bigger second act than he got.

Overview

Stuart Townsend (born 15 December 1972) is an Irish actor. He portrayed Lestat de Lioncourt in the film adaptation of Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned (2002), and Dorian Gray in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003). In 2007, he directed the film Battle in Seattle.

1. Profile

Name (English): Stuart Townsend
Name (Japanese): スチュアート・タウンゼント
Reading: すちゅあーと・たうんぜんと
Born: December 15, 1972 (age 53)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Sagittarius / Rat
Origin: Howth, County Dublin, Ireland
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
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Occupation: actor / film director / screenwriter / film producer / stage actor

2. Background

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Junior high: Private
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3. Relationships

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4. Personality

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5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	The Martini Shot	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88