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Character Information

Fran is the second daughter of Sylvia and Morty Fine. She was raised in Flushing, Queens in New York City beside her sister Nadine. In her teens, Fran and best friend Val Toriello (Rachel Chagall) attended local Hillcrest High School, alongside fellow students Ray Barone, Fran's arch-rival, Heather Biblow, and the late actress Morgan Faulkner (Jane Sibbett). Sylvia Fine (neé Rosenberg), is a ficitional character on the situation comedy, The Nanny. ... A few landmarks from two New York Worlds Fairs still stand in Flushing Meadows, including the US Steel Unisphere Flushing is a neighborhood within the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Valerie Val Toriello was a fictional character in the television situation comedy, The Nanny. ... Rachel Chagall is an actress who was born Rachel Levin on November 24, 1952. ... Hillcrest High School is a secondary school located in Jamaica, a neighborhood of Queens, a borough of New York City, New York. ... Information Gender Male Age 45 (in 2005) Date of birth 1960 Date of death Unknown (still alive) Occupation Sportswriter for Newsday (1996-20??) Family Frank Barone (father) Marie Barone (mother) Robert Barone (brother) Spouse(s) Debra Barone Children Geoffrey Barone (son) Michael Barone (son) Ally Barone (daughter) Episode count 210... Heather Biblow was a fictional character on the American sitcom, The Nanny. ... Jane Sibbett (born November 28, 1962) is an American actress. ...

Upon graduating, Fran attended cosmetics college while working as a foot model. She later assisted in her then-fiancé Danny Imperioli's bridal shop in Flushing, until she was dumped by Imperiali who immediately replaced her with Heather Biblow (Pamela Anderson). Not only did Heather steal Fran's job, she also married Danny instead. Look up flushing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian/American[1] actress, sex symbol, glamour model, producer, TV personality, and author. ...

Fran resorted to selling "Shades of the Orient" makeup door-to-door to make ends meet. In the first episode, Fran arrives at the home of Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy), a Broadway producer, who hires her as a nanny for his three kids, Maggie (Nicholle Tom), Brighton (Benjamin Salisbury), and Gracie (Madeline Zima). This occurs after she shows Maxwell her references, which are written in lipstick. Maxwell Beverly Sheffield (born 195? in England) was the male lead in the long-running television sitcom, The Nanny. ... Charles Shaughnessy Charles Shaughnessy (b. ... Note on spelling: While most Americans use er (as per American spelling conventions), the majority of venues, performers and trade groups for live theatre use re. ... Margaret Maggie Sheffield (born 1979) was a character in the long-running sitcom, The Nanny. ... Nicholle Tom on The Nanny Nicholle Tom (born March 23, 1978 in Hinsdale, Illinois) is an American actress, most famous for her role as Maggie Sheffield on The Nanny. ... Brighton Millhouse Sheffield (born 1981) is a fictional character in the television situation comedy The Nanny. ... Benjamin Salisbury (born 19 October 1980 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American actor most well known for playing the role of Brighton Sheffield on the television sitcom The Nanny. ... Grace Gracie Sheffield (born 1987) was a fictional character on the long-running television situation comedy, The Nanny. ... Madeline Zima (born September 16, 1985 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American actress. ...

Miss Fine is vain and self-conscious about her age; she often claims to be 29 on the show, regardless of how much time passes. It is assumed that, because she turned 30 toward the end of the first season, Fran is thirty-five to thirty-six years old by the end of the series (which leads to some speculation about why her age is such a big dilemma in the first place, especially since it was around the time of the Nanny's creation that the trend of women were getting married later in life rather than in their twenties took hold). Fran is constantly under pressure to get married by her mother, which results in comical situations when Fran declines a chance to marry a rich man (causing her mother to threaten suicide), so she may continue caring for the Sheffields. Rather than surrender to US soldiers, the Mayor (Bürgermeister) of Leipzig Germany, committed suicide along with his wife and daughter on April 20, 1945. ...

Romance

The romantic tension between Maxwell and Fran lasts until the middle of the 5th season, when the couple gets engaged; following several snaffus, they are finally married in the season 5 finale. Until that point, they always address each other with proper employer-employee politeness, i.e. "Miss Fine" and "Mr. Sheffield". Maxwell confesses to Miss Fine that he loves her when their plane to New York meets some turbulence, and he believes they may crash. Upon returning home, Maxwell immediately revokes the statement (this is later referred to as "the Thing" and is held over Mr. Sheffield's head with glee by Fine and Niles).

By the fifth season, Mr. Sheffield and Miss. Fine begin a tentative romantic relationship, which consisted of a very large milestone: calling each other by their first names. Mr. Sheffield proposes marriage (a move that sends C.C. Babcock, who had an obsessive crush on Maxwell and jealous hatred of Fran, to an insane asylum), and they are married in the season 5 finale. Fran and Max have some difficulties conceiving a child the following year. The OB/GYN suggested that Fran relax more and that she and Maxwell should have less sex to ensure enough available sperm for Fran's time of ovulation; the latter part of the diagnosis didn't pan out as well as the former (it turned out the couple's appetite for each other was insatiable). They finally conceive twins, Jonah and Eve, in the series finale. Chastity Claire Babcock, familiarly known as C.C. (born 195?) was a fictional character on the sitcom The Nanny. ...

Despite the fact they stopped using each other's last names to address each other when they married, Fran and Max would still switch to their boss/employee roles out of habit. When Max is angry with her, he will instinctively shout "Miss Fine!", causing a worried Fran to reply, "Oh no, I'm Miss Fine again!". The same is true for Fran, who calls Maxwell "Mr. Sheffield" in bed.

Trivia

• Fran attended the same high school as Ray Barone (played by Ray Romano), which she affectionately calls "Raymond" in one of the CBS crossover episodes. Ray Barone is the lead character in the hit sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.
• Fran's favorite store is Loehmann's
• Fran Fine's most prominent trademark, her exceptionally loud and nasal voice, made the character almost legendary, in real life and in the show. Other characters regularly made comments about the sound (i.e. Fran shouts when she gets stuck in an elevator, Maxwell says "that's my wife!", without actually knowing that it was Fran before the familiar sound of her voice). Although many people believe the voice is "fake", it is Fran Drescher's real voice (although she confessed she played it up a little when filming).
• Fran's age has always been treated like a mystery. When asked, Fran always claims that she is twenty-nine years old.
• As seen in a flashback she first saw Mr. Sheffield in a talk show.
• Fran lost her virginity to a guy in Israel
• In the first season episode The Gym Teacher, Fran and her ex-nemesis, Coach Stone, look at her yearbook which Fran comments contains "the class of '82". It can therefore be deduced that Fran was born in 1964, graduating at age 18. This coincides with when she celebrated her Thirtieth birthday in the first season episode A Plot for Nanny. It does present a discrepency, though, seeing as Sylvia said that JFK was president when she was born, when he was dead at that point.