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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Renée Taylor
(born Renée Wechsler; March 19, 1933) is an American actress, occasional
writer and one-time director, best-known for playing Fran Drescher's
outspoken mother, Sylvia Fine, on the TV series The Nanny. Born in the
Bronx, New York, from 1992 to 1994 she played a stereotypically
overbearing Jewish mother of the lead character on the HBO series Dream
On. Beginning in 1993, she began playing the overbearing mother of Fran,
the title character on The Nanny. The two roles overlapped while both
shows were on the air at the same time. Taylor has been married to actor
Joseph Bologna since 1965, and is the mother of actor Gabriel Bologna.
Taylor and Bologna co-wrote the Broadway hit comedy Lovers and Other
Strangers, and received Oscar nominations for writing the 1970 film
adaptation.
