owns and operates a Los Angeles doughnut shop, Yankee Doodle Donuts. She is a hard-working and patriotic American, and almost always relates things to doughnuts. Mrs. Ning grew up as an orphan in her homeland. She was eventually engaged to a prince, but the wedding was interrupted when a revolution broke out. Mrs. Ning escaped to the United States, smuggling in with her fiancé posing as her uncle ("Childhood"). She works long hours and finds little time for pleasantries (playing Pai gow in Las Vegas). However, she does make time to sponsor her granddaughter Kim in ice skating competitions ("Family"). She does not appear in season 4. Janie Pillsworth Age 37. Manhattan magazine editor. Janie, born Janine, hails from Broxbourne, England and is the only child to Frank and Jackie Pillsworth. She attended a prestigious British boarding school thanks to her working class father who sacrificed his kidney to pay her tuition. While there, Janie reinvented herself and disowned her parents. The family wasn't reunited until an unscrupulous colleague revealed Janie's true identity and she was forced to face her past. After her father died, Janie let her mother, who also acts as a live-in nanny. Ruby Romaine Age 72. A Hollywood makeup artist (one of the oldest still working in the union) who's seen it all; she worked heavily during Hollywood's heyday. Ruby drinks and smokes heavily. She takes care of her shell-shocked Vietnam war veteran son Buddy, along with her cat Duke and their Vietnamese Pot-bellied, Oinky. Ruby has one daughter, Desirée. Fern Rosenthal Age 56. Fern is a Jewish homemaker, originally from Long Island. After thirty-seven years of marriage, Fern convinced her husband Harry to retire to Boca Raton, Florida after he suffered a heart attack. Harry was the owner of a chain of seventeen discount pharmacies. They have one daughter, Sheila and a grandson, Ryan. Fern's closest friend (and sometimes rival) is condo board president Jobie Wolff (Julie Kavner). Harry was thought to have been eaten by an alligator on a golf course ("Loss"), but Fern soon discovered that he had been having an affair with their maid and the two had run off together and were living in Belize. Fern tracked Harry down and an altercation broke out resulting in Harry being eaten alive by a shark ("Agents"). Sheneesha Turner Age 34. Sheneesha is an African American airport security guard. She works the metal detector,