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+ | |born = Brighton Milhouse Sheffield |
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+ | |birthday = 1983 (pilot episode) 1981 (rest of the series run) |
| + | |aka = Schmuey (Grandma Yetta)<br/>Master Brighton (Niles)<br/>Trevor (C.C.) |
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| − | |aka = Max<br/>Maxwell <small>(by [[C.C. Babcock|C.C.]])</small><br/>Mister Sheffield <small>(by [[Niles]], [[Fran Fine|Fran]])</small><br/>Puddleducks <small>(by [[Jocelyn Sheffield|Jocelyn]])</small> |
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| − | |education = The Warren School (age 11-18)<br/>Goodrington School (age 3-11) |
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+ | |occupation = Mime<br/>Student |
| + | |family =*[[Sara Sheffield]] (mother; deceased) |
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| − | |family = [[Elizabeth Sheffield]]<br/><small>(mother)</small><br/>[[James Sheffield]] †<br/><small>(father)</small><br/>[[Maggie Sheffield]]<br/><small>(daughter)</small><br/>[[Brighton Sheffield]]<br/><small>(son)</small><br/>[[Grace Sheffield]]<br/><small>(daughter)</small><br/>[[Jonah Samuel Sheffield]]<br/><small>(son)</small><br/>[[Eve Catherine Sheffield]]<br/><small>(daughter)</small><br/>[[Nigel Sheffield]]<br/><small>(brother)</small><br/>[[Jocelyn Sheffield]]<br/><small>(sister)</small><br/>[[Concepcion]] (paternal half-sister)<br>[[Rupert]] (cousin)<br>[[Bill]] (uncle)<br>[[Eloise]] (grandmother)<br>[[Isobel]] (great-aunt)<br>[[Phillip]] (great-uncle)<br> |
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| + | *[[Maxwell Sheffield]] (father) |
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| − | |romances = [[Fran Fine]]<br/><small>(wife)</small><br/>[[C.C. Babcock]]<br/><small>(flirtation)</small><br/>[[Sara Sheffield]] †<br/><small>(wife)</small><br/> |
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| + | *[[Maggie Sheffield]] (older sister) |
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| + | *[[Grace Sheffield]] (younger sister) |
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| + | *[[Jonah Samuel Sheffield]] (half-brother) |
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| + | *[[Eve Catherine Sheffield]] (half-sister) |
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| + | *[[Fran Fine]] (stepmother) |
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| + | *[[Sylvia Fine]] (step grandmother) |
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| + | *[[Morty Fine]] (step grandfather) |
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| + | *[[James Sheffield]] (paternal grandfather, deceased) |
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| + | *[[Elizabeth Sheffield]] (paternal grandmother) |
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| + | *[[Nigel Sheffield]] (paternal uncle) |
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| + | *[[Jocelyn Sheffield]] (paternal aunt) |
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| + | *[[Nadine Cooperman]] (maternal aunt) |
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| + | *[[Michael]] (brother-in-law) |
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+ | |actor = [[Benjamin Salisbury]] |
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|last = [[The Finale Part II]] |
|last = [[The Finale Part II]] |
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+ | }}'''Brighton Sheffield''' is a principal character on ''[[The Nanny]]''. He is portrayed by [[Benjamin Salisbury]]. |
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| + | Brighton is the only son of Maxwell and Sara Sheffield. Because both his older and younger siblings are sisters, he feels like he is left out of the loop often. Thus, he squabbles with both of them, mainly his older sister, Maggie. He was often causing trouble for his sisters. Despite this, he was also very sensitive, and was very bitter in the beginning about his non-existent family (his father was always working, his mother was dead and his only siblings were ''girls''), and once said "Won't we have to be a family first?" in response to Fran's enthusiasm for his school's carnival held for the students' families. |
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| − | Maxwell is a Broadway theatrical producer of some success, although his main rival was Andrew Lloyd Webber. It has always irritated him that he had turned down producing the shows ''Cats'', (as well as ''Tommy'' and ''Hair'', and that Webber had made a fortune from it). |
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| + | When the new Nanny, Fran Fine came along, Brighton knew not what to make of things at first. He wanted to hate her as he hated all his previous nannies, but he found that he liked Fran's down-to-earth and witty personality. He wasn't as expressive in his bond with her as his sisters, but looks up to Fran as his example. He tried smoking cigarettes once when Fran and her best friend Val mentioned that one of the very bad boys in their high school smoked heavily and was considered a god, yet, though he tried to blackmail Fran into not handing his father the headmaster's note about being caught smoking, he did nothing to Fran when she finally confessed the whole incident to Maxwell, leading his father to believe that Brighton actually likes Fran and doesn't want to see her gone, as no one (and certainly not one of the nannies) could control Brighton except his mother Sara because he feared her. He was also the person, after his father, who was most worried when Fran started dating in Season 1 that she'll leave the Sheffield home soon. This was especially obvious when he and his father fell asleep on the living room couches waiting for Fran to come back from her date. |
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| − | His wife Sara had died some years before the start of the show (the cause of death is never stated). Maxwell worked closely with his business partner,[[C.C. Babcock]] (who has her eyes set on becoming the next Mrs. Sheffield) for almost 20 years. Maxwell has three children; Maggie, Brighton and Gracie. However, his busy schedule does not allow him much time to spend with them, so he had to find a nanny; enter[[ Fran Fine]] . |
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| + | Brighton's ambition was to become a Broadway producer, like his father. Also, he is insatiably girl crazy, and while his father thinks that is what boys are like, Fran doesn't approve of it at all. When Fran took a job on a soap opera in place of her long-time arch-rival, Heather Biblow, Heather was then given Fran's job as a trick to get Fran back. Brighton really liked her, (that is to say, he ''lusted'' after her) but his sisters, who sided with Fran, naturally, hated her; eventually Fran came back to her job, one of the rare occasions that she had the upper hand against her rival, and Heather was fired. Maggie, Fran and Gracie were exultant; Brighton walked around with the towel Heather wore in the episode wrapped around him, sobbing into it. |
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| − | Fran is uncultured, but has practical and common sense, having grown up in a close-knit Jewish family in Flushing, Queens. This sets the stage for a lot of culture clashes, especially in the early episodes. Despite mutual attraction, Maxwell and Fran try to keep their relationship professional only. Maxwell is nervous about commitment and is mourning his deceased wife, Sara, while Fran is still reeling from a broken relationship with an ex-boyfriend, named Danny, whom she later almost marries. During a flight to New York, the plane carrying Maxwell and Fran hits some turbulence, and in the commotion, Maxwell tells Fran he loves her. Upon returning home, he takes the statement back. It is eventually called "'''[[The Thing" "|The Thing"]]'''and is often held over Maxwell's head by Fran and [[Niles]] , the butler. |
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| + | Brighton also joined a Canasta league which allowed him to bond with his soon-to-be grandmother, Sylvia Fine and his soon-to-be great grandmother, Yetta Rosenberg. |
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| − | After a lot of stumbling, Maxwell confesses his true feelings, and he and Fran get married. The engagement sends the jealous C.C. into a mental hospital. Despite being released, -she continues her maniacal attempts to separate them, even placing a veil on her head at the wedding, and taking Max's arm to walk down the aisle, much to Max's bemusement. She is eventually removed from the aisle by Niles and made to sit down. Maxwell becomes a father again when Fran gives birth to twins, Jonah Samuel Sheffield and Eve Katherine Sheffield. After the birth, the whole family moves to California, where Maxwell is scheduled to produce a TV show in Los Angeles. |
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| + | During the later seasons, Brighton seemed to obsess a lot about his trust fund, or possible lack of one. When anyone says he has lost his trust fund, he goes into a real state of shock. |
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| − | Many episodes have quotes which imply that he is a Roman Catholic. His age ranges from 39 to 45 as he mentioned that he was 42 years old in "That's Midlife." |
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| + | Brighton was present during the spontaneous marriage of Niles and C.C., as well as the birth of his twin siblings, Eve and Jonah Sheffield. |
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| − | In the episode "The Nanny Behind the Man," Maxwell identifies himself to be a Republican. In real life, Charles Shaughnessy is an outspoken Democrat. |
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| + | At the show's end, he was accepted into Harvard University, but chose to take a year off to travel France and supposedly work as a mime. In the final episode he is shown taking a plane to France, and asked his sister Maggie to come with him to France, because he was ''"afraid of the Paris People!"''. |
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| − | The romantic tension between Maxwell and Fran peaks in 1997, when the couple gets engaged; following several snafus, they are finally married in (1998). Until that point, they always address each other with proper employer-employee politeness, i.e., "Miss Fine" and "Mr. Sheffield". Maxwell confesses to Miss Fine that he loves her when their plane to New York meets some turbulence, and he believes they may crash. Upon returning home, Maxwell immediately revokes the statement (this is later referred to as "the Thing" and is held over Mr. Sheffield's head with glee by Fine and Niles). |
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| − | By then, Mr. Sheffield and Miss Fine begin a tentative romantic relationship, which consisted of a very large milestone: calling each other by their first names. Mr. Sheffield proposes marriage (a move that sends C. C. Babcock, who had an obsessive crush on Maxwell and jealous hatred of Fran, to an insane asylum), and they are married in (1998). They finally give birth to fraternal twins, Jonah and Eve, in(1999). Jonah, who was born first, was named for Fran's side of the family, but was more reserved like his father; and Eve, who was born a few minutes later, was named for her father's side of the family, but was more nasally and boisterous like her mother. |
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| − | Despite the fact they stopped using each other's last names to address each other when they married, Fran and Max would still switch to their boss/employee roles out of habit. When Max is angry with her, he will instinctively shout "Miss Fine!", causing a worried Fran to reply, "Oh no, I'm Miss Fine again!". The same is true for Fran, who calls Maxwell "Mr. Sheffield" in bed. Before they got married, Fran had many fantasies of them making out. |
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Revision as of 02:48, 6 December 2018
Brighton Sheffield is a principal character on The Nanny. He is portrayed by Benjamin Salisbury.
Character
Brighton is the only son of Maxwell and Sara Sheffield. Because both his older and younger siblings are sisters, he feels like he is left out of the loop often. Thus, he squabbles with both of them, mainly his older sister, Maggie. He was often causing trouble for his sisters. Despite this, he was also very sensitive, and was very bitter in the beginning about his non-existent family (his father was always working, his mother was dead and his only siblings were girls), and once said "Won't we have to be a family first?" in response to Fran's enthusiasm for his school's carnival held for the students' families.
When the new Nanny, Fran Fine came along, Brighton knew not what to make of things at first. He wanted to hate her as he hated all his previous nannies, but he found that he liked Fran's down-to-earth and witty personality. He wasn't as expressive in his bond with her as his sisters, but looks up to Fran as his example. He tried smoking cigarettes once when Fran and her best friend Val mentioned that one of the very bad boys in their high school smoked heavily and was considered a god, yet, though he tried to blackmail Fran into not handing his father the headmaster's note about being caught smoking, he did nothing to Fran when she finally confessed the whole incident to Maxwell, leading his father to believe that Brighton actually likes Fran and doesn't want to see her gone, as no one (and certainly not one of the nannies) could control Brighton except his mother Sara because he feared her. He was also the person, after his father, who was most worried when Fran started dating in Season 1 that she'll leave the Sheffield home soon. This was especially obvious when he and his father fell asleep on the living room couches waiting for Fran to come back from her date.
Brighton's ambition was to become a Broadway producer, like his father. Also, he is insatiably girl crazy, and while his father thinks that is what boys are like, Fran doesn't approve of it at all. When Fran took a job on a soap opera in place of her long-time arch-rival, Heather Biblow, Heather was then given Fran's job as a trick to get Fran back. Brighton really liked her, (that is to say, he lusted after her) but his sisters, who sided with Fran, naturally, hated her; eventually Fran came back to her job, one of the rare occasions that she had the upper hand against her rival, and Heather was fired. Maggie, Fran and Gracie were exultant; Brighton walked around with the towel Heather wore in the episode wrapped around him, sobbing into it.
Brighton also joined a Canasta league which allowed him to bond with his soon-to-be grandmother, Sylvia Fine and his soon-to-be great grandmother, Yetta Rosenberg.
During the later seasons, Brighton seemed to obsess a lot about his trust fund, or possible lack of one. When anyone says he has lost his trust fund, he goes into a real state of shock.
Brighton was present during the spontaneous marriage of Niles and C.C., as well as the birth of his twin siblings, Eve and Jonah Sheffield.
At the show's end, he was accepted into Harvard University, but chose to take a year off to travel France and supposedly work as a mime. In the final episode he is shown taking a plane to France, and asked his sister Maggie to come with him to France, because he was "afraid of the Paris People!".