Grace Sheffield

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Grace Sheffield
First appearance	Pilot
Last appearance	The Finalé
Information
Age	6 (Season 1)-12 (Season 6)
Occupation	Student
Family	Maxwell Sheffield (father) Sara Sheffield (mother) Fran Fine (adopted mother) Brighton Sheffield (brother) Margaret Sheffield (sister) Eve Sheffield (half-sister) Jonah Sheffield (half-brother)
Relatives	Elizabeth Sheffield (grandmother) James Sheffield (grandfather) Joan Sheffield (step-grandmother) Roberta (grandmother) Ernest (grandfather) Jocelyn Sheffield (aunt) Nigel Sheffield (uncle) Concepcion (aunt)
Portrayed by	Madeline Zima
Created by	Fran Drescher Peter Marc Jacobson

Grace "Gracie" Sheffield (born 1987) was a fictional character on the long-running television situation comedy, The Nanny. She was played by actress Madeline Zima.

[edit] The Youngest Sheffield

Grace was the youngest of the three Sheffield children. Until Fran Fine came to work for the family, she was also the most troubled after the death of her mother. She was seeing an analyst when she was only six years old. She learned a lot from these sessions which she used quite often to make witty psychological remarks.

Then along came Fran. Grace and Fran bonded quickly, as she had with her older sister, Maggie. Because of Fran, Grace didn't need to see her analyst as much as she used to. In fact, she saw Fran as a mother figure. Grace was so devoted to Fran that she in fact ran away to Flushing, where she saw Fran and her mother, Sylvia Fine. During her adventures in Flushing, she attended her first Jewish wedding.

C.C. Babcock, her father's business partner, and Fran's nemesis, had hurt Grace by saying that Fran was merely a nanny. This earned C.C. Fran's wrath, "You're a wonderful woman, and I wish you well, but if you ever say one more word about my kid, you'll be scraping your blue blood off the walls!!! And I mean that in the nicest possible way..." Fran pointedly told C.C..

Grace was called "Gracie" by Fran, and often, she would accompany her shopping. She also aided Fran quite some times in her attempts of deception aimed to make Fran look more popular or avoid parking tickets. Grace eventually adopted some of Fran's Jewish slang and dressing habits. Fran even borrowed clothes from Grace quite often. Maxwell adored Grace, and when Maggie had grown up, he took to smothering her as he had done with Grace's older sister.

She became a great older sister to her twin half-siblings, Jonah and Eve.

Grace accompanied her family to Los Angeles, when her father accepted an offer to produce a movie there.

The Nanny
Main characters:	Fran Fine | Maxwell Sheffield | Niles | C.C. Babcock | Maggie Sheffield | Brighton Sheffield | Grace Sheffield
Recurring characters:	Sylvia Fine | Yetta Rosenberg | Val Toriello
Episodes:	List of The Nanny episodes
Related:	Dadı