# Question about The Nanny

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-nanny/846027>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 6, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-nanny/846027 "2020-01-06T12:01:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-nanny/846027/1 "2020-01-06T12:01:51Z")

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Thanks to my (somewhat new) Roku TV, I’ve been watching a bit of The Nanny lately. Something struck me and I haven’t (yet) found an answer on the internet - had anything much been revealed on the show about Mr. Sheffield’s late first wife? I’m wondering if it was ever explicitly stated that she was an American, mainly because a) the kids have American accents rather than their father’s British (in-show explanation, I get that for American TV, it makes for a more popular show than all Brits), and b) a British theater producer would, I imagine, want to produce for the West End London stage rather than New York’s Broadway, unless some external circumstance prompted a move to America…and I don’t recall any explicit mention on the show of what that might have been.

If anyone here has been very into the show for its entire run, maybe the answer is in episodes I have yet to see.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-nanny/846027/2 "2020-01-06T13:47:55Z")

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The Nanny Wiki on [Sara Sheffield](https://thenannytv.fandom.com/wiki/Sara_Sheffield).

Appears in a home video and a flashback in 2 episodes. Played by [Bess Armstrong](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000787/), an American actress. No cause of death given.

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-nanny/846027/3 "2020-01-06T14:49:39Z")

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Thanks. Somehow, I didn’t think to look for a series-specific Wiki.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-nanny/846027/4 "2020-01-06T18:52:17Z")

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Googling “\<series name\> wiki” usually turns up 1 or more for something that was on as long as this.