(Born Dec. 15, 1972) Stuart Townsend is an Irish actor and boxer. Like fellow Irish actor Colin Farrell, he attended the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. In 1997 he took a lead role in the British film Shooting Fish. It was with this part that his career started to take off. In recent years he has appeared in a number of big budget films including Queen of the Damned, opposite the late Aaliyah, as the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as Dorian Gray. In 2005 Townsend starred alongside Gabrielle Union in Night Stalker.