Biography
Stewart Townsend is an Irish actor who remembered to the audience due to its mysterious images. The artist is easily reincarnated and changes the appearance, growing long hair or a beard. The Stunta Stuart remains unchanged.Childhood and youth
Stewart was born in the winter of 1972 under the constellation of Sagittarius in Ireland, in the Houte - Northern suburb of Dublin. The father of the boy Peter Townsend was a professional golfish, Lorna Hogan's mother worked as a fashion model, quite popular in the country in the 1970s. Later in the family, the younger brother and sister Stewart were born - Dylan and Chloe.
In 1994, Lorna died suddenly from hemorrhage into the brain. At that time, Dilan was only 10 years old, and Chloe - 7. In recognizing the brother of the actor, who later took up the model business, the stewart paid a lot of time with his sister. As a result, the revolving dilan relationship with his brother is much closer than with his father.
In his youth, Stewart dreamed of two things: do not work in the office and go as far as possible from the hour. In Dublin Theater School Gaity School of Acting, the young man came by chance, having acquainted with the girl who visited her. Townsend decided to try and realized that he found his calling.
During this period, the biography of Stuart participated in theatrical productions and student films. A professional stage debut in 1994 was the play True Lines. For the first time, he was put in the city of Kilkenny, later showed on the Dublin Theater Festival, then in the London Theater "Bush", where the production was a great success.
Films
Stewart began to be filmed in the youth - in the Irish short ethics godsuit and "summer time". The first full-length film was the "Nice Guy of Eddie" with Stephen Ri in the foreground. Townsend appeared in an episodic image, but it was this film that marked the beginning of his serious filmography.In 1997, Stewart received a major role in the comedy Drama "Selling", where I embodied the image of Robin Hood 90s, a dedudation Jeza, who dreams of any way to help the same way as he. After that, the Townsend appeared in several British paintings, including the "Simon Magnus" movies nominated at the Berlin Bear, affecting the difficult topic of coexistence in the XVIII century of the Christian and Jewish communities.
In 1998, he performed in an unusual role of the bloodthirsty and cold-blooded gangster-killer, working on the thriller Mark Evans "Risen".
The US critics drew attention to the Irish actor after the appearance of Stewart in 2000 in the melodraman "about Adam". After this role, Townsenda briefly returned to theatrical art, playing the main role in the play "Orpheus descends to hell" on the play of Tennessee Williams.
Then the Townsend in 2002 first appeared on the American screen: he was invited to the role of the Vampire of Lestat in the film "Queen of the Damned" according to the famous "Vampire Chronicles" Ann Rice.
A year later, the artist saw in the role of Dorian Gray in the film "League of Outstanding Gentlemen", the film design of the graphic novel Alan Mura. With a comic movie, there was so little common that Moore insisted that his name would be removed from the titles. Cash taxes in the paintings were quite good, but the criticism and the audience perceived the "league of outstanding gentlemen" in general negatively.
When Peter Jackson began shooting the "Lord of the Rings", the first contender for the role of Aragorn was Stewart. For 2 months, the actor rehearsed and trained as part of preparation for the role and even managed to make friends with Orlando Bloom. However, the day before the start of filming, the Townsende was replaced by Viggo Mortensen, refusing to pay for work. The reason for such a sharp change was the opinion of Jackson that Aragorn should be older.
Of the unlikely roles of the Townsend, you can also be noted by Frandla Lich, the Hero of Marvel comic. This character Stuart was going to embody on the screen in the film "Tor" 2010, but was replaced by the director because of the creative differences.
After the "League of Outstanding Gentlemen", the artist appeared mainly in small roles in the series. It can be noted in the episodes of such multi-sized projects as "elementary", "Salem" and "Treason" with the British model of Khanna Way.
In 2005, the ABC television channel invited Townsend to the main role of Karl Kolchak in "swaying in the night". However, the series was closed after 6 episodes due to bad ratings - critics found the classic remake "squeezing in the night" unsuccessful.
From 2011 to 2015, the actor worked in the Franco-Canadian multi-seater film "XIII" and several American projects. For the first ribbon in 2013, Stuart Townsend received the Gold Remi Award Prize in the "Best Actor" nomination.
Brother Stewart Dylan in 2016 reported that Townsend is thinking of "tie" with professional activities. However, in 2018, the famous brunette began shooting at The Martini Shot - existential drama on art and death. The premiere with the Townsende in the main role took place next year.
Personal life
From the second marriage of the Father, Stuart Townsende has a summary brother and sister - Hugo and Ella.
In 2001, on the set of the film "24 hours", Stewart met the actress Charlize Theron. The couple met for 9 years, living alternately in the United States and Ireland. The actors considered themselves in marriage, although they were not officially painted.
Townsend himself said that they do not need official papers, a state or church in order to call themselves husband and wife. Relationships stopped Charlize - according to her, during the years of living together, they turned into friends from the beloved.
Since 2013, Stewart is in relations with mysterious dark-skinned beauty Agata Araya. According to Dianana Townsend, in 2015 the couple moved to live in Costa Rica. Stewart and Agatha have two children - the sons of Desmond and Ezra.
Stewart Townsend now
Now Townsend still lives with his family in Costa Rica. The details of the personal life of the star does not disclose, almost nothing knows about his girlfriend, although the photo of children a man occasionally places in his blog in "Instagram". The artist is also divided by thoughts on the pages in Facebook and Twitter. It is not known whether the Townsend of a certain diet adheres to, but the physique of celebrities can be called slim, even thin - its height is 180 cm, and the weight is 77 kg.In the new projects in 2020, the performer did not appear, but hinted in social networks on new films in the cinema or TV series.
Filmography
- 1996 - "Glorious Guy Eddie"
- 1997 - "Sell"
- 1997 - "inside yourself"
- 1998 - "Risen"
- 1999 - "Simon Magus"
- 1999 - Escort
- 2000 - "About Adam"
- 2002 - "24 hours"
- 2002 - "Queen of the Damned"
- 2003 - "League of outstanding gentlemen"
- 2005 - "squeezing in the night"
- 2011 - "thirteenth"
- 2013-2014 - "Treason"
- 2013 - "strangers in paradise"
- 2014-2017 - "Salem"
- 2017 - "Law and Order: Special Corps"