Francine Joy Drescher is an American actress, comedian, writer, and activist. She is best known for her role as Fran Fine in the hit TV series The Nanny. Drescher made her screen debut with a small role in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever. In the 1980s, she gained recognition as a comedic actress in the films Gorp, The Hollywood Knights, Doctor Detroit, This Is Spinal Tap, and UHF.
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Francine Joy Drescher is an American actress, comedian, writer, and activist. She is best known for her role as Fran Fine in the hit TV series The Nanny. Drescher made her screen debut with a small role in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever. In the 1980s, she gained recognition as a comedic actress in the films Gorp, The Hollywood Knights, Doctor Detroit, This Is Spinal Tap, and UHF. In 1993, she achieved wider fame in her own sitcom vehicle The Nannies. She was nominated for two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Television Series during the show’s run. In 2000s, Drescher reinforced her position as a leading sitcom star with Living with Fran and Happily Divorced. Since 2012, she has starred in the animated Hotel Transylvania trilogy. On February 4, 2014, she made her Broadway debut in Cinderella as stepmother Madame. In 2020, she will star in the NBC comedy Indebted. A uterine cancer survivor, she is an outspoken healthcare advocate and LGBT rights activist, and is noted for her work as a Public Diplomacy Envoy for Women’s Health Issues for the U.S. State Department. She lives in Malibu, California, with her husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, who she married in 1978, at age 21. She has an older sister, Nadine, and her family is Jewish.
Her maternal great-grandmother Yetta was born in Focșani, Romania, and emigrated to the United States, while her father’s family came from Poland. She also had an appearance on Night Court as a woman with dissociative identity disorder who flips from a prude to a sexually minded woman and ends up in a hotel with ADA Dan Fielding. In 1990, she appeared on ALF Roxanne, the wife of grown-up Brian, who had no clue she was a mob boss in the episode I Gotta Wear It. In 1991, she co-starred on the CBS sitcom Princesses of So Bright and So Bright-mid-mid. She appeared in the short-lived CBS sitcom The Pggy Pals on PBS in the early-to-mid 1990s. She became an instant star, playing a woman named Fran Fine who became the nanny of Margaret Brighton, the widower of widower Margaret Sheffield. She and Jacobson created their own television show, TheNanny, in 1993 on CBS from 1993 to 1999, and Drescher became anInstant star, she played a woman called Fran Fine named Fran who became a widower named Fran Brighton. She had a role in Ragtime in the 1981 Miloš Forman film, Ragtime, and appeared in The Big Picture in 1985 as publicist Bobbi Flekman. She graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1975; one of her classmates was comedian Ray Romano.
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