Editing Stuart Townsend (section)

== Personal life ==
Townsend's father, [[Peter Townsend (golfer)|Peter]], was a golfer who played in the [[1969 Ryder Cup|1969]] and [[1971 Ryder Cup]]s.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/stuart_townsend_biog.html | title = Stuart Townsend Biography | last = Wills | first = Dominic | work = Film biographies | publisher = Tiscali | access-date = 8 February 2008 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081224040244/http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/stuart_townsend_biog.html | archive-date = 24 December 2008}}</ref> He has a brother, Dylan, and sister, Chloe, from his father's first marriage to Lorna Townsend, who died in 1994 of a brain haemorrhage.<ref>{{cite news|last=McQuaile|first=Jenny|title=Stuart's my big brother and my hero.. He raised us when our mum died; IRISH MODEL DYLAN TOWNSEND ON LIFE WITH HOLLYWOOD COUPLE.|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Stuart's+my+big+brother+and+my+hero..+He+raised+us+when+our+mum+died%3B...-a0119883734|access-date=7 October 2013|newspaper=The Mirror (London, England)|date=29 July 2004}}</ref> Townsend has two half-siblings, [[Hugo Townsend|Hugo]] and Ella, from his father's second marriage, to Swedish-born Sofia.<ref>{{cite news |last=Egan |first=Barry |title=Stuart finds his life goes on after Theron |url=http://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/stuart-finds-his-life-goes-on-after-theron-26632299.html |access-date=7 October 2013 |work=[[Irish Independent]] |date=14 February 2010}}</ref>

Stuart dated actress [[Charlize Theron]] after meeting her on the set of 2002's ''[[Trapped (2002 film)|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."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20055540,00.html | title = Stuart Townsend Calls Charlize Theron His Wife | last = Chi | first = Paul | work = People | access-date =13 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204034337/http://people.com/celebrity/stuart-townsend-calls-charlize-theron-his-wife/|archive-date=4 December 2017}}</ref> Theron split from Townsend when they came back on day two of a planned ten-day holiday in [[Mexico]] in January 2010.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=4c8e405f-33a4-434c-b0eb-e726fda35dcf | title = Theron ends relationship? Charlize Theron has reportedly split from her partner of nine years. | last = Johnston | first = Max | publisher = The Province&nbsp;— Division of Canwest Publishing Inc. | access-date = 7 October 2013 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150828002918/http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=4c8e405f-33a4-434c-b0eb-e726fda35dcf | archive-date = 28 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Egan|first=Barry|title=Stuart finds his life goes on after Theron|url=http://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/stuart-finds-his-life-goes-on-after-theron-26632299.html|access-date=7 October 2013|newspaper=IndependentWoman.ie|date=14 February 2010}}</ref>

In May 2015, Townsend's brother said that Stuart had settled down in [[Costa Rica]], where he had bought some land and was living with a woman from that country, who was expecting their second child at that time.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/irish-actor-stuart-townsend-living-in-costa-rica-and-expecting-second-child-says-his-brother-dylan-31259977.html |title=Irish actor Stuart Townsend living in Costa Rica and expecting second child, says his brother Dylan |author=Staff writers |work=[[Irish Independent]] |date=2015-05-28 |access-date=2019-01-08}}</ref> In 2019, Townsend was living in Santa Monica with his wife and two children, and was arrested after a domestic dispute.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Quann|first=Jack|title=Irish actor Stuart Townsend arrested in US|url=https://www.newstalk.com/news/irish-actor-stuart-townsend-arrested-us-904565|access-date=2021-08-26|website=Newstalk|language=en}}</ref>