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Francine Joy Drescher (born in Flushing, Queens,
New York, on September 30, 1957) is a Jewish
United States|American actor|actress. 

She was a studious girl and was quite popular. In
fact, at age fifteen she'd met the man she thought
she'd spend the rest of her life with: Peter Marc
Jacobson. Her first break was a bit part in the
movie Saturday Night Fever (1977).

In 1985, robbers ransacked Drescher's apartment
and raped her and one of her girlfriends. It took
her many years to overcome this obstacle, and it
took her even longer to admit this to the press.
She was paraphrased as saying in an interview with
Larry King that although it was a very negative
experience, she found ways to turn her experience
into something positive; she saw her rapist sent
to prison. 

She continued to play small roles in movies, until
she came up with the idea for The Nanny
(television)|The Nanny. She was visiting her
friend, model Twiggy, in England and came up with
the plotline. The show aired on CBS from 1993 to
1999, becoming an instant success, and so did
Fran. In this sitcom she played a charming and
bubbly young girl, named Fran Fine, who casually
became the nanny of three children; with her wit
and her charm she endeared herself to their father
Maxwell Sheffield, a stuffy, composed, proper
British gentleman and a Broadway producer (played
by Charles Shaughnessy). 



Her voice is a combination of a high nasal pitch
and a New York/Jewish Accent (linguistics)|accent
that many people find unpleasant, although others
(including her first husband) found it endearing.
In her autobiography Drescher discusses the fact
that this is, in fact, her real voice, and the
many voice lessons she has had to take to overcome
it for movie auditions (only to have it, and her
machine-gun titter, end up being her trademark).
Her first book was even titled Enter Whining.

During her TV experience, she also appeared in a
number of films, including Jack (movie)|Jack
(1996), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, The
Beautician and the Beast (1997) (which she also
executive produced) and Picking Up the Pieces
(2000) co-starring Woody Allen. In 1999 Fran
divorced her husband, Peter Marc Jacobson. 

Fran Drescher was admitted to Los Angeles's Cedars
Sinai Hospital on 21 June 2000, after doctors
diagnosed her with uterine cancer. But emergency
surgery caught it early as it was only at Stage 1
and she didn't have to have radiation or
chemotherapy. She has been given a clean bill of
health and no post-operative treatment has been
ordered. She wrote about her experiences in her
second book Cancer Schmancer.

In 2005 she returned on Television|TV with the
sitcom Living with Fran, in which she played Fran
Reeves, a charming middle-age woman living with
Riley Martin, a guy barely older than her son.
Former Nanny costar Charles Shaughnessy appeared
in one episode as her philandering ex-husband who,
after being dumped by his own younger lover,
schemes to win her back. Misti Traya plays the
part of her teenage daughter, Allison.

==Filmography==
*Saturday Night Fever (1977)
*American Hot Wax (1978)
*Gorp (movie)|Gorp (1980)
*The Hollywood Knights (1980)
*Ragtime (film)|Ragtime (1981)
*Doctor Detroit (1983)
*The Rosebud Beach Hotel (1984)
*This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
*Young Lust (1984)
*It Had to Be You (1989)
*UHF (1989)
*The Big Picture (1989)
*Wedding Band (1990)
*Cadillac Man (1990)
*We're Talking Serious Money (1992)
*Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)
*Jack (movie)|Jack (1996)
*The Beautician and the Beast (1997) (also
executive producer)
*Kid Quick (2000) (short subject)
*Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
*Santa's Slay (2005)

==TV Work==
*Stranger in Our House (1978)
*Charmed Lives (1986) (canceled after 4 months)
*Rock 'n' Roll Mom (1988)
*What's Alan Watching? (1989)
*Love and Betrayal (1989)
*Princesses (1991) (canceled after 7 episodes)
*Without Warning: Terror in the Towers (1993)
*The Nanny (1993-1999)
*The Nanny Christmas Special: Oy to the World
(1995) (voice)
*Living with Fran (2005-present) (also executive
producer)


==External links==
*imdb name|id=0000376|name=Fran Drescher
*
http://home.frognet.net/~ritchie/hrenterwinning.ht
m "Enter Winning" article on Drescher

===Fan sites===
* http://fran.secret-hopes.com/ Fran Drescher
Online
* http://frans-fine.cjb.net/ Another Fran Drescher
fan site