![]() Career Early career ĭrescher's first break was a small role as dancer Connie in the movie Saturday Night Fever (1977), in which she delivered the line "So, are you as good in bed as you are on the dance floor?" to John Travolta's character. ĭrescher and Jacobson attended Queens College, City University of New York, but dropped out in their first year because "all the acting classes were filled." They then enrolled in cosmetology school. Drescher's character Fran Fine from The Nanny and Romano's character Ray Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond met at a 20th high school reunion on an episode of The Nanny. Drescher graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1975 one of her classmates was comedian Ray Romano. There she met her future husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, whom she married in 1978, at age 21. She attended Flushing's Parsons Junior High School, which later dissolved, and then Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens. She has an older sister.ĭrescher was a first runner-up for "Miss New York Teenager" in 1973. Her maternal great-grandmother Yetta was born in Focșani, Romania, and immigrated to the United States, while her father's family came from Poland. Her family is Jewish, from Southeast and Central Europe. Early life and education ĭrescher was born on September 30, 1957, in Queens, a borough of New York City, the younger daughter of Sylvia, a bridal consultant, and Morty Drescher, a naval systems analyst. The national members of the trade union SAG-AFTRA, representing actors and other media professionals, elected Drescher as their new president on September 2, 2021. In 2020, she starred in the NBC sitcom Indebted. On February 4, 2014, Drescher made her Broadway debut in Cinderella as stepmother Madame. From 2012 to 2022, she has starred in the animated Hotel Transylvania film series. In the 2000s, Drescher starred in the sitcoms Living with Fran and Happily Divorced. In 1993, she achieved wider fame as Fran Fine in her own sitcom vehicle The Nanny, for which 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 the 1980s, she gained recognition as a comedic actress in the films Gorp (1980), The Hollywood Knights (1980), Doctor Detroit (1983), This Is Spinal Tap (1984), and UHF (1989) while establishing a television career with guest appearances on several series. She is known for starring in the lead role as Fran Fine in the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999), which she created and produced with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson.ĭrescher made her screen debut with a small role in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever and later appeared in American Hot Wax (1978) and Wes Craven's horror tale Stranger in Our House (1978). Variety film critic Tony Scott, wrote that Shaughnessy ‘doesn’t do much convincing’ and that his former Days of Our Lives co-star Ross fared better, giving her character ‘an easygoing, even sympathetic, quality.’ He also noted Pfeiffer's ‘intelligent face’ and felt that Simpson ‘turns in the best scene of the production when he rasps into a phone.’ Scott added that the production was technically sound, but faults were the result of Schreiner's ‘absurd script.Francine Joy Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American actress, comedian, writer, activist, and trade union leader. Tom Deese ( Charles Shaughnessy) falls in love with his daughter's roommate, Amanda ( Charlotte Ross), and becomes the focus of his daughter Catherine's ( Dedee Pfeiffer) suspicions when Amanda is murdered. ![]() Produced by Chuck Bowman, Jennifer Alward (executive producer) and Jill Proctor (associate producer). ![]() ![]()
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