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Stuart Townsend
Townsend at the Beverly Hills Special Screening of "Battle in Seattle" - September 22, 2008.
Like 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 1993 production of Colin Teevan's Tear Up The Black Sail1. 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.
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.
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In 2005 Townsend starred alongside Gabrielle Union in Night Stalker, the remake of the 1974 ABCTV seriesKolchak: 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 & 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 2007 comedy Chaos Theory.
Thor and the role of Fandral. There are only two news items from Marvel that states "Josh Dallas as Fandral".3. (All other internet statements have derived from one original news article citing two simultaneous anonymous sources.) At this writing, no interested party has issued any formal 'on the record' statement saying that Stuart Townsend is no longer involved with the project.
Personal life
Townsend's father, Peter, was a golfer, who played in the 1969 and 1971 Ryder Cups.4 His brother Dylan Townsend is a professional model.5
Townsend dated actress Charlize Theron after meeting her on the set of 2002's Trapped. The couple live together in Los Angeles and England. They said they considered 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."6
Charlize has told friends she split from the Irish actor after a trip to Mexico over the Christmas [2009] period, and has now stopped wearing an antique commitment ring he had given her as a sign of his love. They had become more like brother and sister than lovers. It was she who ended it."7
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