Also complementing the exceptional cast is Fran's food-loving mother, Sylvia (Renée Taylor) and Maxwell's partner and Niles' arch-enemy, C.C. Her nurturing style includes out-of-the-ordinary techniques coupled with a tell-it-like-it-is attitude which made the children, the butler, Niles (Daniel Davis) – and eventually her boss – fall in love with her. Eventually selling cosmetics door to door, she meets a rich, widowed English Broadway producer named Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy) and is taken for an applicant for the job of nanny to Maxwell's three children Maggie (Nicholle Tom), Brighton (Benjamin Salisbury), and Grace (Madeline Zima).
Fran Drescher starred in this beloved '90s sitcom as Fran Fine, a bubbly and nasal-voiced Queens native who wa s fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend.
