Photo: Charles Shaughnessy with Kevin Tostado.jpg Kevin Tostado from San Diego, USA *derivative work: Sirab / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
I find Charles Shaughnessy endlessly charming because he wears his aristocracy so lightly. An actual hereditary baron who made his name in American daytime soaps and then as Maxwell Sheffield on The Nanny — that is a career built on self-awareness. He understood that his polish and accent were comic instruments, not credentials to flaunt, and he played the straight man with real generosity. Winning a Daytime Emmy for voicing a goldfish only proves the range. Decades into his career he still works steadily, which tells me the title never mattered to him half as much as the craft did.
Overview
Charles George Patrick Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy (born 9 February 1955) is a British actor and hereditary peer. His roles on American television include Shane Donovan on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, Maxwell Sheffield on the sitcom The Nanny, and the voice of Dennis the Goldfish on Stanley for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award. He had recurring roles as Christopher Plover on The Magicians and St.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Charles Shaughnessy
- Name (Japanese)
- チャールズ・ショーネシー
- Reading
- ちゃーるず・しょーねしー
- Born
- February 9, 1955 (age 71)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Goat
- Origin
- London, Roman Empire
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / actor / film actor / stage actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Eton College
Awards & achievements
- Daytime Emmy Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://charlesshaughnessy.com/welcomepage.html
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlesshaughnessy/
- Xhttps://x.com/C_Shaughnessy
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Shaughnessy
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.