Francine Joy "Fran" Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and television actress, comedian, screenwriter, tv director, producer, author, activist and political lobbyist best known for playing Fran Fine on the television series The Nanny.
Drescher was born in Kew Gardens Hills, New York, the daughter of Sylvia, a bridal consultant, and Mort Drescher, a naval systems analyst. Her Ashkenazi Jew...
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Francine Joy "Fran" Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and television actress, comedian, screenwriter, tv director, producer, author, activist and political lobbyist best known for playing Fran Fine on the television series The Nanny.
Drescher was born in Kew Gardens Hills, New York, the daughter of Sylvia, a bridal consultant, and Mort Drescher, a naval systems analyst. Her Ashkenazi Jewish family is of Eastern European origin (her great-grandmother was born in Focşani, Romania). She has an elder sister, Nadine.
Drescher was a first runner-up for "Miss New York Teenager" in 1973, as revealed in her interview on William Shatner's Raw Nerve, which first aired on January 27, 2009. She attended Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens, where she met her future husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, whom she married in 1978, at age 21. Jacobson was Drescher's constant supporter in her show-business career, and he wrote, directed, and...
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