Renée Taylor(I)
- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Renée Taylor was born in the Bronx, New York City, New York, USA to Frieda
(née Silverstein) and Charles Wexler. She worked as a comedian in the
early 1960s at the New York City nightclub Bon Soir. Her opening act
was a then unknown Barbra Streisand.
She earned notice for her portrayal of
Eva Braun in
Mel Brooks's
The Producers (1967), and continued
to act in several film, television, and theater productions. However,
despite an impressive, 60-year resume, she is better remembered as
Sylvia Fine, the overbearing, classic Jewish mother of
Fran Drescher's title character in
The Nanny (1993).
