That’s what my wife would say,” he added. “I’m not a village idiot, but I’m not quite as smart as I think I am. While he was able to soak up his wife’s culture, Shaughnessy quipped that he is not as smart as Americans assume just because he has an English accent, although he did note that he is a “Celebrity Jeopardy!” champ twice over. Fran was very impressed.” Shaughnessy traded quips with Fran Drescher over six seasons. So, I actually knew all of that when I came into ‘The Nanny.’ People were very impressed. “So, when I was getting married to a Jewish gal by a Reform rabbi, I took all the books out of the library and read everything and ended up being far more educated in Judaism than anyone in my in-laws’ family. I throw myself into things 100 percent,” he explained. “When I got married, I became one of those people. The Cambridge College-educated actor told us that Drescher was impressed by his knowledge of Jewish customs and Yiddish phrases when they began filming. Charles Shaughnessy wasn’t a clueless gentile on “The Nanny” set. The beloved show ran on CBS from 1993 to 1999 and has been in steady syndication since, garnering new fans yearly. Shaughnessy played wealthy, widowed Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield, who hired a fashionista of a nanny named Fran Fine (Drescher) from - you know the song! - Flushing, Queens, to look after his three children.
Sheffield was in temple without Miss Fine in sight,” he told Page Six with a laugh. “The buzz going around the temple was audible because people could not believe Mr. The London-born actor, 66, caused a kosher cacophony when he attended a Rosh Hashanah service in the ’90s with his wife, Susan Fallender - and not his co-star Fran Drescher. Fran Drescher had to fight for ‘The Nanny’ to be JewishĬharles Shaughnessy remembers being the talk of his local temple during the height of “The Nanny” fame.
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