Renée Taylor

Renée Taylor ( born March 19, 1933 New York City as Renée Wexler ) is an American actress and author. Your most internationally famous role is that of Sylvia Fine, Mother of the incarnate by Fran Drescher Fran Fine title character in the television series The Nanny.

Life

Renée Taylor was born Renée Wexler in 1933 in New York City borough of the Bronx. In 1965 she married actor Joseph Bologna. Their son Gabriel Bologna is also active as an actor.

Career

Together with her husband Taylor wrote the play Lovers and other strangers, which was a great success on Broadway and was filmed in 1970 under the direction of the two authors. For the screenplay Taylor and Bologna in 1971 received an Oscar nomination. As an actress, Taylor had from 1959 different appearances as a comedian in The Jack Paar Show, the forerunner of the Tonight Show. In the following acting career Renée Taylor was also often seen in comedic roles and films. In 1961 she was in the Jerry Lewis film The office idiot in front of the camera. Directed by Mel Brooks she portrayed Eva Braun in the hit comedy Springtime for Hitler. In 1970 she again played a supporting role in the comedy Nobody kills as bad as I on the side of Walter Matthau. The following year, the actress stood with her husband Joseph Bologna for the TV movie Made for Each Other in front of the camera. The partially autobiographical script was again written by Taylor and Bologna. The couple was honored with an Emmy.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Renée Taylor had numerous guest appearances on several television series such as St. Elsewhere, Harry's nest or Caroline in the City.

Even greater international attention brought her the role of Sylvia Fine in the U.S. sitcom The Nanny. She embodied the stereotypical Jewish mother of actress Fran Drescher from 1993 to 1999. You was then heard as synchronous voice of the female turtle in the original English version of Dr. Dolittle 2. 2004 Taylor played on the side of Jew Law and Susan Sarandon in the British- American production Alfie. The most famous German dubbing voice of Renée Taylor comes from the actress Marianne wiping man.

Filmography (selection)

Cinema and television films

As author

Guest appearances

Awards

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