Stuart Townsend Net Worth 2024

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Stuart Townsend  is an Irish actor. His most notable portrayals are of the characters Lestat de Lioncourt in the 2002 film adaptation of Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned, and Dorian Gray in the 2003 film adaptation of Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Stuart Townsend net worth is $50 million.

Early life

Townsend was born in Howth, County Dublin, the son of Lorna Hogan, an Irish model, and Peter Townsend, an English professional golfer.

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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 Sail.  His professional stage debut was in 1994’s True Lines, directed by John Crowley. True Lines was first performed in Kilkenny; it later moved to the Dublin Theatre Festival and on to the Bush Theatre in London.

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Townsend’s early film roles were in Irish short films such as Godsuit and Summertime. His first part in a feature length film was Trojan Eddie, a 1996 Anglo-Irish co-production. In 1997 he landed a lead role in the British film Shooting Fish.

After his appearance as the 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. He appeared in big budget films, including Queen of the Damned, as the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as Dorian Gray.

Stuart Townsend Net Worth

Stuart Townsend net worth 2024 is $50 million.

Townsend’s father, Peter, was a golfer, who played in the 1969 and 1971 Ryder Cups.

Townsend has a brother, Dylan Townsend, and sister, Chloe Townsend, from his father’s first marriage to Lorna Townsend, who died in 1994 of a brain hemorrhage. Townsend has two half-siblings, Hugo and Ella, from his father’s second marriage, to Swedish-born Sofia.

Townsend dated actress Charlize Theron after meeting her on the set of 2002’s Trapped. The couple lived together in Los Angeles and Ireland. They said they considered themselves married without an actual marriage, with Townsend stating, “We didn’t have a ceremony. 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.”

Theron split from Townsend when they came back on day two of a planned ten-day holiday in Mexico in January 2010.