Charles George Patrick Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy (born February 9 1955), simply known as Charles Shaughnessy, is a British peer, and television, theatre and film actor. He is known for his roles on American television, as Shane Donovan on the soap opera Days of our Lives and as Maxwell Sheffield on the sitcom The Nanny, which has aired in reruns on Nick at Nite. He teamed with one of his children to compete in an All Star episode of the Nickelodeon game show Family BrainSurge.