Renee Taylor

Renee was discovered by Academy Award nominated director, screenwriter, and actress, Elaine May.

When Renee and Joe got married in 1965 they had originally planned to have their wedding reception at New York's famous Tavern on the Green, but soon found out it was too expensive. Merv Griffin, whose show Renee worked on at the time, offered to pay for their reception (on the set of his show) if the couple agreed to allow it to be filmed and later shown on Merv's show. In the end Renee and Joe agreed and their wedding reception was televised on The Merv Griffin Show.

Renee is very close friends with actress/singer Lainie Kazan, and wrote the part of "Tess LaRuffa" in Bermuda Avenue Triangle just for her.

In 1997 Renee was inducted into the "Bronx Walk of Fame" by Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, Jr. Other inductees include Regis Philbin, Rita Moreno, and Stanley Kubrick.

When not acting, Renee works as a motivational speaker for other actors, and can by hired via the American Talent & Celebrity Network.

Renee met husband Joe Bologna on the set of a television commercial which he was directing and she was starring in. Renee says that right after she was introduced to him she thought to herself, "this is the man I am going to marry."

In 1986 Renee released the book, My Life on a Diet: Confessions of a Hollywood Diet Junkie, a spoof on dieting in Hollywood.

In the 1950s, at the start of her career, Renee worked as a a revue comedienne and writer in New York.

Renee received her training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.

She was personally chosen for the role of "Sylvia Fine" on The Nanny by star and co-creator, Fran Drescher.

Renee was featured in the 2007 TV movie, Pandemic, which starred Tiffani Thiessen, Eric Roberts, and Faye Dunaway.

In 1971, Renee, Joe Bologna, and David Zelag Goodman were nominated for an Academy Award in the category of "Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium" and a Writers Guild of America Award in the category of "Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium" for the movie Lovers and Other Strangers. In both cases they lost to Ring Lardner Jr. who wrote the screenplay for MASH.

Renee and Joe Bologna were nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award in 1972 in the category of "Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen" for the movie Made For Each Other. The award went to Paddy Chayefsky for the movie The Hospital.

Renee was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1996 in the category of "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series" for her work on the CBS series The Nanny. She lost to Julia Louis-Dreyfus of Seinfeld fame.

Renee and her husband, Joe Bologna, wrote the pilot episode teleplay for the sitcom Annie, about a middle-aged woman living with her parents. The show, set to air in 1971, failed to be picked up by ABC, who had originally ordered the pilot.

Renee's theater credits (writing w/ Joe Bologna) include:
- Lovers and Other Strangers
- It Had to Be You
- Bermuda Avenue Triangle
- An Evening with Golda Meir
- If You Ever Leave Me, I'm Going with You

Renee's theater credits (acting) include:
- Luv
- Agatha Sue, I Love You
- Lovers and Other Strangers
- It Had to Be You
- Bermuda Avenue Triangle
- An Evening with Golda Meir
- If You Ever Leave Me, I'm Going with You
- The Third Ear

Renee has a "Bacon Number" of 2.
She was in Alfie with Marisa Tomei,
Marisa was in Loverboy with Kevin Bacon.