Shawn Brady

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Shawn Brady is a fictional character from the American soap opera Days of Our Lives and the patriarch of the Brady family. He has been portrayed by Lew Brown (1984 to 1985), Peter MacLean (1989 to 1990), and most notably by Frank Parker (1983 to 1984, 1985 to 1989, 1990 to 2008).^{[citation needed]}

An Irish immigrant, Shawn moves to Salem from his native Galway at an undetermined time. In the early stages of the "Brady-DiMera Feud Resolution" storyline in the early-2000s, it is revealed that Shawn has maintained sporadic contact with family and friends in Ireland throughout the years. Including the "rougher" element of their hometown, who regard Shawn with a great degree of respect and refer to him only as, "Himself" (and who Shawn directs to "rough up" and detain Bo Brady when he was getting a little too curious about past events in Ireland). There are strong hints that Shawn may have had some underworld dealings of his own in his youth, and was possibly involved directly in some of the early battles of the feud with the DiMera family, but this is later dropped.

Shawn is the husband of

Over the years, Shawn has kept himself busy in a number of ways. Originally the owner of the Brady Fish Market, after their business is destroyed and Shawn suffers a massive heart attack, he and Caroline re-open the Fish Market as the Brady Pub, often employing many of their family and friends. Over the years the pub has functioned as a second home for some of their grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and their first great-grandson, Will, spent a great deal of time there while he was growing up.

Shawn has been married to Caroline Brady since he first appeared on-air in 1983. The son of Peter Brady, and the grandson of Patrick Aloysius and Nora Molly Brady, Shawn has a brother Eric and two sisters, Molly and Colleen. Shawn is devastated when he learns that his brother Eric molested his daughter Kimberly when she was a child, which results in her later developing

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