Charles Shaughnessy

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Charles Shaughnessy (2007)

Charles George Patrick Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy (born February 9, 1955 in London ) is a British film and theater actor . In 2007 he inherited a British title of nobility .

biography

Shaughnessy was born to Alfred James Shaughnessy , the screenwriter of The House on Eaton Place , one of the UK's most popular television series, and his wife, Jean, an actress. Even in elementary school he played in smaller plays.

After graduating from Eton College , he studied law at Magdalene College of Cambridge University . There he was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club . He completed his studies with a master's degree .

Shaughnessy then went back to school, this time to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where he met his future wife, the American student Susan Fallender. The couple has been married since 1983 and has two daughters: Jenny Johanna (* 1990) and Madelyn Sarah (* 1995).

In 1984 Shaughnessy got the role of Shane Donovan in the soap Zeit der Sehnsucht , which he played for eight years. During this time he won three Soap Opera Digest Awards.

His next success was the CBS series The Nanny . Shaughnessy played for six years with the charming, English Broadway -Produzenten Maxwell Sheffield on the side of Fran Drescher . His sudden fame earned him lead roles in films such as The Sweet Kiss of Death , Mom's Rendezvous with a Vampire , Family Fate - A Woman Is Desperate , Second Chances and The Painting .

Children have known his voice since 2001 when he lent it to a little goldfish named Dennis in the Stanley cartoon series . For this work he was awarded the Daytime Emmy Award on May 11, 2002.

In 2003 Shaughnessy returned to the theater and played leading roles in two musicals , one week in Pittsburgh and a few months in New York . In the romantic classic My Fair Lady , he played the part of the self-indulgent Henry Higgins , who falls in love with the flower girl Eliza Dolittle . He made Broadway - and the city of UrineTown - unsafe as the villain Caldwell B. Cladwell and banned the use of private toilets.

In December 2007 he inherited from a cousin of the second degree the title of Baron Shaughnessy , of the Peerage of the United Kingdom belongs.

Filmography (selection)

Guest appearances in series

Appearances as a voice actor

Special

  • December 6, 2004: The Nanny Reunion A Nosh To Remember

Web links

predecessor Office successor
Michael James Shaughnessy Baron Shaughnessy
2007- 		current owner of the title
personal data
SURNAME Shaughnessy, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shaughnessy, Charles George Patrick; Shaughnessy, Charles, 5th Baron Shaughnessy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH London