Charles Shaughnessy
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Charles was born into a show business family. His father,
Alfred Shaughnessy, was the principal
writer for the popular London Weekend Television/ITV series
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971)
and his mother, Jean Lodge, was an actress.
He started appearing in plays during school. He attended Eton College
and read law at Magdalene College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he
joined Footlights, a comedy revue. After graduating, he decided to
return to acting and enrolled in a London drama school, which led to
him to touring in a repertory company. Eventually moving to America to
follow the actress he later married, he got his break on
The Nanny (1993).
