Charles Shaughnessy

At 69 years old, Charles Shaughnessy has this physical status:

Charles George Patrick Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy (born 9 February 1955), is a British actor. Shaughnessy is best known for his appearances on American television as Shane Donovan on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, Maxwell Sheffield on the sitcom The Nanny, and Dennis the Goldfish on Stanley.

He, his brother, David Shaughnessy, and Ophelia Soumekh are among 3S Media Solutions Inc's founding partners.

Early life

Alfred Shaughnessy, a television writer who wrote for Upstairs, Downstairs, and actress Jean Lodge, was born in London on February 9, 1955. David Shaughnessy's brother, as well as an actor and a television producer and director, is a writer. Thomas Shaughnessy, the 1st Baron Shaughnessy, was an American-Canadian railway administrator of Irish descent. When his second cousin Michael (1946–2007), the fourth Baron Shaughnessy, died without issue, Charles inherited the name.

Shaughnessy was the first child of a show business family and began appearing in plays during primary school. He began studying Eton College and completed a law degree at Magdalene College, where he wrote a thesis on the House of Lords.

He joined the Footlights club while at Cambridge. He returned to acting after graduating and enrolled in a London drama school, which culminated in his appearance in a repertory company. He moved to the United States and married actress Susan Fallender in 1983, with whom he had two children, Jenny (born 1990) and Maddy (born 1995).

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Career

Shaughnessy first became well-known for her role on the soap opera Days of Our Lives from 1984 to 1992. Kimberly Brady, Patrick Pease's character, turned the pair into a soap supercouple and reignited enthusiasm in Days among teenage viewers in the 1980s. On Super Password in 1986, he appeared with Betty White and Bert Convy, and in 1993, Shaughnessy appeared in a Murphy Brown episode as the title character's date to the inaugural ball.

On CBS's The Nanny, Shaughnessy is also known for his portrayal of Maxwell Sheffield opposite Fran Drescher from 1993 to 1999. In Drescher's next sitcom, Living with Fran, Shaughnessy appeared regularly as her philandering but needy ex-husband Ted. After two seasons, living with Fran was discontinued on May 17, 2006.

Shaughnessy reunited with another Days of Our Lives co-star Deborah Ross, who portrayed Shane's daughter Eve Donovan in the TV film A Kiss So Deadly. Ross played the roommate of Shaughnessy's daughter (Dedee Pfeiffer); Shaughnessy's character, though married, forms an obsessive, Lolita-esque relationship with Ross. Shaughnessy's character murders Ross' character as she tries to break it off; eventually, his daughter discovers the truth.

Shaughnessy appeared (in a dual role) in the Disney Channel 2002 made-for-TV film Get a Clue. He appeared in the 2000 made-for-TV Halloween film Mom's Got a Date starring Caroline Rhea; she appeared on The Nanny in 1998 as part of a cross-over with Hollywood Squares. Shaughnessy appeared on Rhea, Melissa Joan Hart, and Beth Broderick), a young girl whose two characters were different. Alec Colson appeared in Stargate SG-1's 8th-season episode "Covenant." In the PC game Freelancer, he also played Dr. Quintaine.

Shaughnessy appeared on an episode of NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and he's also the voice of Dennis the Goldfish on Disney Channel's cartoon program Stanley. Shaughnessy received the coveted Performer in an Animated Program on May 11, 2002, for his performance of Dennis.

In Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery, Shaughnessy portrayed the murder survivor (Samuel, Guru) on August 8, 2008. His voice was heard in television commercials for Range Rover cars as of September 2008. In December 2008, he played Pietro in The Tale of Despereaux. In the game Saints Row 2, he also portrayed the Cockney English accent for "The Boss."

Shaughnessy made a guest appearance on the programme "Miss Red" as the manager of a private club on May 5th, 2009. He appeared on Hannah Montana as a talent show judge modeled after Simon Cowell in the episode "Judge Me Tender."

In a storyline connected with Alice Horton's funeral (played by Frances Reid), Shaughnessy appeared on Days of Our Lives for a brief period of time, reuniteing him with his former co-star Patsy Pease (Kimberly). This plot progression was necessitated by the actor who had long played Mrs. Horton, because the designers were well aware that no one would accept the role as an outsider.

In Monty Python's Spamalot, Shaughnessy appeared as King Arthur from August to September 2010. In Ogunquit, Maine, the Ogunquit Playhouse is on display. He received the Boston World Boston Theater Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical in January 2011 (Large Theater). Shaughnessy has appeared on the soap opera web series The Bay as Elliot Sanders since 2010. On December 6, 2010, he reunited with Fran Drescher as a guest on her limited-run daytime display, The Fran Drescher Show.

Shaughnessy appeared in My Fair Lady at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, and then returned to play Georges in La Cage aux Folles in fall 2013. He appeared as a guest on Fran Drescher's TV Land sitcom Happily Divorced's first-season finale, first broadcasting on August 17, 2011.

Shane Donovan, who appeared in Days of Our Lives in May 2012 as Shane Donovan, and meeting with Hope and Bo Brady and Stefano DiMera. Patsy Pease did not appear as Shane's wife, Kimberly, in this film arc; nor did Charlotte Ross, who had played Eve, Shane's daughter. In November 2013, Shane and Kimberly deal with their daughter's drug use. He also returned in November 2013 for a three-episode arc.

After original actor Judge Reinhold was given the opportunity to leave the scene on January 23, 2014, Shaughnessy would play in Harvey at the New Theatre in Overland Park, Kansas.

Shaughnessy appeared on a Blog in August as business tycoon Tom Fairbanks, a man who wanted to buy Stan, the title character, and use him as the spokes-dog for his animal rescue effort.

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