page_title: Renée Taylor
hierarchical_section_title: Renée Taylor
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor (husband and wife in real life) from a television special they wrote and performed in from 1974.
context_page_description: Renée Taylor is an American actress, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and one-time director. She is best known for having played Fran Drescher's title character's outspoken mother, Sylvia Fine, on the TV series The Nanny.
  Taylor won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 1973 for her work on The Carol Burnett Show.
context_section_description: Renée Taylor (née Renée Wexler; March 19, 1933) is an American actress, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and one-time director. She is best known for having played Fran Drescher's title character's outspoken mother, Sylvia Fine, on the TV series The Nanny.
  Taylor won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 1973 for her work on The Carol Burnett Show.
caption: Taylor in 1974.
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