


Maxwell reluctantly hires her to be the nanny of his three children: Maggie, Brighton, and Grace. Jewish-American Fran Fine turns up on the doorstep of British Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield ( Charles Shaughnessy) to sell cosmetics after having been dumped and subsequently fired by her bridal-shop-owner boyfriend. The sitcom has also spawned several foreign adaptations, loosely inspired by the original scripts. The show earned a Rose d'Or, and one Emmy Award, out of a total of twelve nominations Drescher was twice nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy. The show was created and produced by Drescher and her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, taking much of its inspiration from Drescher's personal life growing up in Queens, involving names and characteristics based on her relatives and friends. The Nanny is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from November 3, 1993, to June 23, 1999, starring Fran Drescher as Fran Fine, a fashionista from Flushing, Queens, New York, who becomes the nanny of three children from a New York–British upper-class family. Highschool Sweethearts Productions (seasons 3–6, starting with "Dope Diamond").
