

Though Sylvia ate a lot of the time, she was also involved in a canasta league, which allowed for her to bond somewhat, with Brighton Sheffield, during the short time that he was on the team. She was known for her constant and voracious eating. She made it a point to go over to the Sheffield house quite frequently, and she would usually partake of the stocked refrigerator. Before that, she had only met Grace Sheffield (Gracie) when Gracie ran away to Flushing to find Fran on her day off. In fact, she met all of them in one fell swoop when they were stranded in Fran's old neighborhood, during a blizzard. Besides Fran, she had an older daughter, Nadine Fine, who married Barry Cooperman, an air-conditioner repair man.Īlthough Fran wasn't married to Maxwell Sheffield, yet, she bonded well with his three children.


Sylvia was married to Fran's father, Morty (eventually played in the last episodes by singer Steve Lawrence) for many years, and theirs was a typical marriage. She, along with her mother, Yetta Rosenberg, couldn't believe how fortunate Fran was to find a job as a nanny for a rich Broadway producer, so soon after being fired from her job at a bridal shop. Sylvia is Fran Fine's mother, and was always nagging her daughter to get married, when Fran wasn't pressuring herself to get married. Sylvia is shown to be a loving (though somewhat overbearing) mother with a seemingly insatiable appetite. Sylvia Ray Fine (née Rosenberg) the mother of series protagonist Fran Fine, and a principal recurring character on The Nanny.
