Charles Shaughnessy is best known for his role as the stuffy, yet dreadfully captivating theater manufacturer and father, Maxwell Sheffield, which he played on The Nanny reverse Fran Drescher. The British-born actor played the personality for all six seasons of the display, from 1993 to 1999, and could also be well liked by cleaning soap fans, having been a fixture in daylight hours since he first appeared on Days of Our Lives in 1984. But despite being a steadily working TV actor (and a Baron within the United Kingdom, after inheriting the identify), Shaughnessy has at all times been a low-key celebrity. Read on to find out what the now-67-year-old has been doing since he left Flushing, Queens.
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On Days of Our Lives, Shaughnessy played Shane Donovan, a undercover agent sent to Salem to analyze Stefano DiMero, ceaselessly from 1984 to 1992, and then off and on thru 2021, together with on the by-product limited sequence, Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem. (He additionally played Shane's identical twin brother, Drew.) But whilst he'll all the time be Shane to some, Shaughnessy's most recent soap opera role is on General Hospital, the place he took over the function of Victor Cassadine, who had previously been played by way of Thaao Penghlis and was once presumed to be dead for seven years. Shaughnessy stated of the role to Soap Opera Digest, "It's really kind of unique to the soap universe that you can do this. That a character will die and be resurrected by different actors. In the soap world, you can take a character that's been established and put your twist on it, your little spin. It's a fun character, a complex character to play."
Shaughnessy remains to be habitual on General Hospital, and fans should not depend out another go back to the Days of Our Lives universe both.
After The Nanny ended, Shaughnessy had more on his plate than simply cleaning soap operas. Over the years, he's seemed in displays together with Mad Men, Veronica Mars, Castle, Modern Family, and NCIS. He's popped up in a variety of kids's presentations, like Hannah Montana and Victorious, and a number of other TV films. The actor has also lent his outstanding voice to several video video games.
The solid of The Nanny all seem to have remained shut in the years since the sitcom went off the air. Recent reunions include Shaughnessy, Benjamin Salisbury (who played Brighton), Drescher, and Lauren Lane (who played C.C.) supporting Renée Taylor, who played Fran's mom Sylvia, at her one-woman show, My Life on a Diet, in 2019. (Pictured above.) Then, in 2021, Shaughnessy, his spouse Susan Fallender, daughters Jenny and Maddy, and son-in-law Jonathan battled it out with Drescher and her crew on Celebrity Family Feud.
Given that each Nineties sitcom turns out to have got a reboot, it is understandable that Shaughnessy and his former co-stars have been asked if they're interested. While he's skeptical that they may recapture the magic, he'd still want to be concerned.
"It would be a lot of fun. It's hard because people see The Nanny now, it's 30 years old, so we're all different," Shaughnessy told People in 2021. "I'm a lot older. [Drescher's] a lot older. The kids are a lot older. You see that and you kind of want to recreate that, but it's un-recreatable. I have questions about reboots, in general, but if someone comes up with it and offers me to revisit Maxwell Sheffield, I'd be delighted."
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While everyone was once holed up in their homes all over the COVID lockdown, Shaughnessy hosted a podcast on Facebook Live known as Conversations in Quarantine, backed by the Robert F. Kennedy Action Corps. He spoke to all kinds of people, together with different actors from his cleaning soap operas and producers from The Nanny. While it is now not ongoing, all of the movies can be found on Facebook. And if you would like to present somebody a greeting from Shaughnessy (or Mr. Sheffield), you'll be able to book with the actor on Cameo.
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