Charles Shaughnessy Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actor
Birth name Charles George Patrick Shaughnessy
British nationality
Birth February 9, 1955 (London, England)

BIOGRAPHY
The son of a television screenwriter and an actress, Charles Shaughnessy appeared in plays since elementary school. After attending Eton College, he completed a law degree at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he subsequently wrote a thesis on the House of Lords. Then he enrolled in a drama school in London. He then moved to the United States and married actress Susan Fallender, with whom he had two daughters.

Multiple castings, Charles found his first role in 13 episodes of the legal series Jury in 1983. The following year, he was chosen to play Alistair Crawford in the soap Alliances & betrayals . But it was Days of our Lives that revealed it to the general public. In this television series with thousands of episodes, the London native slips into the shoes of Shane Donovan, Kimberly Brady’s husband, for 1,148 episodes (from 1984 to 2013).

At the same time, Charles Shaughnessy appears more or less furtively in various other series. Among them, we can cite The Secret of Château Valmont , Madue de toi , L’Homme à la Rolls or Can’t Hurry Love. In 1993, the actor found the second major role of his career in the sitcom A Nanny from Hell . It is Maxwell Sheffield, producer of musicals, widower and father of three children who hires the energetic Fran Fine as housekeeper.

During the 2000s and 2010s, Charles toured with an impressive pace, appearing in a multitude of series such as (to name a few) Sabrina, the Teenage Witch , The Angels of Happiness , Stargate SG-1 , On the Side of Home Fran , Special Victims Unit , Mad Men , CSI: Manhattan , Sullivan and Son , First Murder , NCIS , Modern Family and Masters of Sex . He also works as a voice actor on animated programs like Stanley .

At the same time, Charles Shaughnessy plays in numerous TV films, often family and romantic: The Love Ranch , Operation Walker , Kate & William: When It All Began , My Christmas Prince and the trilogy When Christmas Will Come .