Stuart Townsend children: Meet Ezra Townsend, Desmond Townsend

Stuart Townsend 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 Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003). In 2007, he directed the film Battle in Seattle.

Stuart attended the Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin, and made his non-professional stage debut in its 1993 production of Colin Teevan’s Tear Up The Black Sail. The following year he made his professional stage debut in True Lines, directed by John Crowley.

Stuart Townsend children: Meet Ezra Townsend, Desmond Townsend

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. In 2019, Townsend was living in Santa Monica with his wife and two children, Desmond and Ezra, and was arrested after a domestic dispute.