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‘The Nanny’ Cast Relationships: See Who Fran, Mr. Sheffield and More Married in Real Life
The Nanny is beloved for its fabulous ’90s fashion and Fran Drescher’s signature sassy humor, delivered in her inimitable voice. While her plucky character, Fran Okay, ultimately ended up with her wealthy boss, Maxwell Sheffield, in a delightful opposites-attract pairing, her love life offscreen has been decidedly different, and you might be surprised to learn which Nanny cast members have been married for decades and which ones are happily single.
Read on for a glance at the real-life relationships of The Nanny cast, and some of the juicy drama behind the scenes of the sitcom.
Fran Drescher
Fran Drescher, who starred as the bold and stylish nanny Fran Fine, created and produced The Nanny with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson. Drescher and Jacobson were lofty school sweethearts and married in 1978. They divorced in 1999, and in 2010, he revealed he was male lover. Drescher supported him as he came out of the closet, and the former spouses last close friends.
In 2014, Drescher had a non-official marriage ceremony with her lover, Shiva Ayyadurai, an entrepreneur
TV Interview: Daniel Davis from ‘The Nanny’
In case you missed the news a few weeks ago, The Nanny is available for streaming on HBO Max. The 1990s sitcom follows Fran Decent (Fran Drescher) as she takes care of the children of handsome Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy). Some of the best moments of the series are the witty and acute one-liners from Niles the Butler, played by Daniel Davis for all six seasons. His objective was usually Mr. Sheffield’s business partner, CC Babcock (Lauren Lane).
Davis (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Dispatches from Elsewhere, Elementary) spoke with me recently about his time on The Nanny, his theater career, and recent projects. Here are the highlights of our conversation.
Let’s start with two icebreakers. If there’s another pandemic lockdown, which Broadway musical soundtrack is a must-have for your playlist?
Anything that Stephen Sondheim wrote. I’m a big fan of Sweeney Todd and A Little Night Music. Those are probably my two favorites. One of the things that I like about Sweeney Todd and A Little Night Music is that they’re based on really good books. They would stan
Daniel Davis (1945–)
Actor Daniel Davis is leading known for describing the character of Niles the butler on the television comedy series The Nanny, which ran from 1993 to 1999. He is also noted for memorable guest appearances as part of the Star Trek franchise as Professor Moriarty on Star Trek: The Next Generation and reprising the character on Star Trek: Picard. In his roles on both The Nanny and in the Star Trek universe, the Arkansas-born actor spoke in an upper-class British accent so convincing that many people mistook it for his native tongue. He was established at the Tony Awards in 2000 with a nomination for best star in a featured role for his performance in the Broadway play Wrong Mountain, and he received a 2003 OBIE award as part of the acting company of Talking Heads, an Off-Broadway series of one-person shows.
Daniel Davis was born on November 26, 1945, in Arkadelphia (Clark County) and grew up in Gurdon (Clark County). His parents Milton Davis and Patricia Banes Davis owned a movietheater where Davis later said he spent a lot of time in the theater’s “crying room,” a then popular feature at cinemas where parents could take fussy babies and see the f
Boy Meets Boy: Envisioning Homosexual Youth Novels For Translation To The Stage
Keywords
Theatre, lgbt, youth theatre, tya
Abstract
Queer Youth, or young people who identify as lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, or questioning, is a demographic with an increasing presence in contemporary society. Along with this increased presence has come an increase in support groups available to these youths that range from Gay-Straight Alliances at their schools, community groups from their local same-sex attracted and lesbian center to, most recently, theater companies that have begun to offer workshops and recital opportunities within the Homosexual Youth Theatre genre. Gender non-conforming Youth Theatre is an emerging form of topical theatre that deals with issues and situations lgbtq+ youth may face in their daily lives. Not many scripts exist that deal with topics related to LGBT youth, and most theatre groups that give LGBT youth programs, such as the Pride Players from the Omaha Theater Company for Children and Young People in Omaha, Nebraska, rely on devising works for live act. The Pride Players independently publish a “Best of” anthology for use by other groups wishing to use their devised material (Gue