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Stuart Townsend - news / articles


  • Townsend quits Thor - 11 January 2010
    -Irish actor Stuart Townsend has quit superhero blockbuster Thor just days before the movie was set to start shooting.- -It's the second time the Queen of The Damned star has missed out of a potentially major film franchise - he was replaced by Viggo Mortensen in the Lor

Stuart Townsend - what members say


  • Shooting Fish
  • Shooting Fish review by JediSi from Kent
    Rated - 5.0 stars Never trust a man with woman's hips. 20 January 2008
    ...ny times and never get sick of it. The casting is brilliant with Dan Futterman, Stuart Townsendand the amazing Kate Beckinsale in fantastic performances. The plot is quite ...   Read customer review
  • About Adam
  • About Adam review by Joi from Rochester
    Rated - 2.0 stars About Adam 18 June 2008
    ...s some time to get going.... but it does get going, with a cast of Kate Hudson, Stuart Townsend, Frances O'Connor, Charlotte Bradley, Rosaleen Linehan, Tommy Tiernan taking re...   Read customer review
  • Queen of the Damned
  • Queen of the Damned review by A customer from Manchester, England
    Rated - 1.0 stars Oh no no no 29 January 2004
    ...f Anne Rice's books DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE. It misses out vital characters and Stuart Townsend is awful, and what happened to Armand?!!! Apart from this, the movie is just p...   Read customer review

Stuart Townsend - filmography


  • Chaos Theory (2007)
    Starring: Ryan Reynolds,  Emily Mortimer,  Stuart Townsend
    Director: Marcos Siega
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Frank Allen, celebrated author of the bestseller The Five Minute Efficiency Trainer, has perfected the art of living via a foolproof system of timetables and index cards. In fact, his daily "to do" lists are legendary. A man known for playing it safe, Frank doesn't believe in spontaneity. Every ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 73 members
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  • The Best Man on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Amy Smart,  Seth Green,  Stuart Townsend
    Director: Stefan Schwartz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Romantic comedy starring Stuart Townsend as Olly Pickering, a gifted writer who has unfortunately been struck with writer's block and frittered away his publisher's advance without a single paragraph to show for it. Then, out of the blue, James (Steve John Shepherd), Olly's best friend from ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 12,279 members
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  • Head In The Clouds on DVD (2004)
    Starring: David La Haye,  Thomas Kretschmann,  Stuart Townsend
    Director: John Duigan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé (Charlize Theron) shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon (Stuart Townsend), and Mia (Penelope Cruz), a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 3,190 members
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  • The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Peta Wilson,  Stuart Townsend
    Director: Stephen Norrington
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    Steve Norrington's film, based on the graphic novels of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, brings together several literary characters from the Victorian era to prevent the Fantom beginning a world war. It is 1899 and Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) is summoned from Africa by the British government to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 38,869 members
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  • Trapped (2002)
    Starring: Stuart Townsend,  Kevin Bacon,  Courtney Love
    Director: Luis Mandoki
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Will and Karen Jennings (Stuart Townsend and Charlize Theron) are held hostage in different cities whilst their daughter is abducted. The abductors are lead by a ruthless criminal, Joe Hickey (Kevin Bacon), who seems to have hit on a foolproof scam for extorting money from rich families. Holding ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,932 members
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  • Queen of the Damned on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Lena Olin,  Marguerite Moreau,  Stuart Townsend
    Director: Michael Rymer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Legendary Vampire Lestat has risen from a decades-long slumber, determined to step out into the light. No longer content with being banished to the shadows, moving among mortals who never truly see him for what he is, Lestat has re-invented himself as the closest thing to a god on Earth: a rock ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 4,649 members
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  • About Adam on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Donal Beecher,  Charlotte Bradley,  Alan Maher
    Director: Gerard Stembridge
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Behind the wide-eyed facade, however, Adam is a roguish serial seducer, who begins to work his magic on Lucy's repressed, bookish sister Laura (Frances O'Connor). With tragic flair, the sensual Adam recites poetry angling to get into the Victorian mind, heart and bed of Laura.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 1,732 member
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  • The Escort (1999)
    Starring: Noah Taylor,  Stuart Townsend,  Daniel Auteuil
    Director: Michael Blanc
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Caught in the middle of a mid-life crisis, Pierre (Daniel Auteil) is desperate for change, and so leaves his wife and son and heads off to London to write a book. He scours the capital's streets to find a subject for his masterpiece and eventually meets male escort Tom (Stuart Townsend). Tom then ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 854 members
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  • Resurrection Man on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Stuart Townsend,  Brenda Fricker,  James Nesbitt
    Director: Marc Evans
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Mrs Helly (Brenda Fricker) thinks her son Victor (Stuart Townsend) can do no wrong, but he is in fact a viciously violent member of Ireland's underworld. Even his gang are shocked when he carves up one of his victims with a stanley knife. But Victor wins the approval and encouragement of the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 402 members
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  • Shooting Fish on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Dan Futterman,  Jane Lapotaire,  Claire Cox
    Director: Stefan Schwartz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Twenty-somethings Dylan (Dan Futterman) and Jez (Stuart Townsend) live in a converted gasometer and conduct various scams in order to acquire enough money to purchase their own stately home. Their dreams of wealth are interrupted by the arrival of Georgie (Kate Beckinsale), who teams up with the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,613 members
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  • Trojan Eddie on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Sean Lawlor,  Jason Gilroy,  Pat Laffan
    Director: Gillies Mackinnon,  Gillies MacKinnon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Trojan Eddie (Stephen Rea) is a wheeler-dealer in a small Irish town, reliant for his stock on local godfather John Power (Richard Harris), who intimidates Eddie into doing his dirty work for him. When Power marries Kathleen (Aislin McGluckin), a girl less than half his age, she promptly runs away ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 89 members
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Stuart Townsend facts

5 most recent films

Battle in Seattle - 3.0 stars
Chaos Theory - 3.0 stars
The Best Man - 3.0 stars
Head In The Clouds - 2.5 stars
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Shooting Fish - 3.5 stars
Chaos Theory - 3.0 stars
Battle in Seattle - 3.0 stars
Trapped - 3.0 stars
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

About Adam - 2.5 stars
Trojan Eddie - 2.5 stars
The Escort - 2.5 stars
Head In The Clouds - 2.5 stars
Queen of the Damned - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Charlize Theron - 5 times - show films
Rade Serbedzija - 3 times - show films
Richard Roxburgh - 3 times - show films
Martin Henderson - 3 times - show films
Jason Flemyng - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Stephen Norrington - 3 times - show films
Stefan Schwartz - 3 times - show films
Michael Rymer - 2 times - show films
Gerard Stembridge - 2 times - show films
Ben Hopkins - 1 times - show films