“I was going to learn what I needed to learn, ask questions, become partners with my doctor instead of having some kind of parent/child relationship.”
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Fran Drescher
Francine Joy Drescher is an American actress, writer, comedian, producer, and former trade union leader. She played Fran Fine in the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999), which she created and produced with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson.
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entertainment · American actress and writer (born 1957) · television actor · actor · film actor · screenwriter · film producer · writer · television presenter · character actor · voice actor · stage actor · also Fran Drescher, Francine Joy "Fran" Drescher, Francine Joy Drescher, Francine Drescher, Drescher
Born 30 September 1957 · Q230632
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2026· 2 entries
Yahoo: Fran Drescher Reveals “The Nanny” Was Inspired by an Outing She Had with Model Twiggy's Daughter (Exclusive)
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2025· 5 entries
A month before the election to determine Drescher's successor as SAG-AFTRA president concluded, it was announced that SAG-AFTRA members were able to settle a lawsuit against the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan for negligence which
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It was revealed that Drescher, after leading two successful strikes, would not seek re-election to another term as SAG-AFTRA president, with Sean Astin, a member of Drescher's 2023 political slate and negotiating committ
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The strike ended after SAG-AFTRA members voted to ratify a tentative agreement with more performer safety measures, which was a specific concern for motion capture video game performers, motion capture actors having medi
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SheKnows: Fran Drescher Isn’t Letting Anyone Clutch Their Pearls Over Her Sex Life Preferences
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Reprised her Spinal Tap role of Bobbi Flekman in Spinal Tap II: The End Continues; prior to this, Flekman had also made an appearance on a 1997 episode of The Nanny
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2024· 2 entries
Prevention: Fran Drescher Says It Took 8 Doctors to Diagnose Her Uterine Cancer—Now, She’s Raising Awareness
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Ten months after SAG-AFTRA members voted overwhelmingly to authorize another strike against the video game industry, Drescher stated that SAG-AFTRA would begin a strike against major video game publishers, with the strik
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2023· 2 entries
Partially overlapping with the writers' strike that had begun in May of that year
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After SAG-AFTRA members overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike action a week prior, Drescher announced the SAG-AFTRA strike was to begin at midnight the following day, running alongside the concurrent Writers Guild o
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2021· 4 entries
SAG-AFTRA announced that Drescher had won the election
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Career landmark: President of SAG-AFTRA (2021).
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Drescher was awarded the LifeSaver Award by ELEM/Youth in Distress
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Drescher began her campaign to become president of the
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2020· 2 entries
New York Daily News: Fran Drescher reveals how she helped police identify her rapist in 1985
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It was announced that Drescher and Jacobson were writing the book for a musical adaptation of The Nanny
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2019· 1 entry
Entertainment Tonight: Fran Drescher
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2018· 1 entry
Drescher attended a fundraiser gala for Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces (FIDF), which raised $60 million
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2017· 1 entry
Said in an interview she was explicitly anti-capitalist and was happy to see the Green Party gaining some traction
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2014· 3 entries
Drescher and Shiva Ayyadurai participated in a ceremony at Drescher's beach house
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In the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
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Drescher made her Broadway debut in Cinderella as stepmother Madame
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2012· 1 entry
TV Land extended the second season and picked up 12 additional episodes, taking the second season total to 24
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2010· 2 entries
Was guest of honor at the "Dancer against Cancer" charity ball held at the Imperial Palace, Vienna, Austria, where she received the first "My Aid Award" for her achievements in support of cancer prevention and rehabi
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Drescher returned to television with her own daytime talk show, The Fran Drescher Tawk Show
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2008· 5 entries
“Donnell. A series about two old high school friends coping with midlife crises, Drescher described the premature plot of the show as”
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Career landmark: special envoy (2008).
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Drescher announced that she was developing a new sitcom entitled The New Thirty, also starring Rosie O'Donnell
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Drescher supported Senator Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party presidential nomination
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To succeed Hillary Clinton, but ultimately decided against it
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2007· 2 entries
The seventh anniversary of her operation, Drescher launched the Cancer Schmancer Movement, a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that all women's cancers be diagnosed while in Stage 1, the most curable stage
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Drescher appeared in the US version of the Australian improvisational comedy series Thank God You're Here
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2006· 2 entries
Was honored with the City of Hope Spirit of Life Award, which was presented to her by Hillary Clinton
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Drescher guest-starred in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent; the episode, "The War at Home", aired on US television on November 14, 2006
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2005· 1 entry
Returned with the sitcom Living with Fran, in which she played Fran Reeves, a middle-aged mother of two living with Riley Martin (Ryan McPartlin), a man half her age and not much older than her son
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2003· 1 entry
Drescher appeared in episodes of the short-lived sitcom Good Morning, Miami as Roberta Diaz
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2000· 1 entry
After doctors diagnosed her with uterine cancer
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1996· 2 entries
Drescher and Jacobson divorced in 1999
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After separating in 1996, Drescher and Jacobson divorced in 1999.
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1993· 1 entry
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
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1991· 1 entry
Drescher co-starred on the short-lived CBS sitcom Princesses
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1990· 1 entry
Drescher appeared on ALF as Roxanne, the wife of grown-up Brian, who had no clue she was a mob boss, in the episode "Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades"
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1957· 2 entries
Born 1957-09-30.
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In Queens, a borough of New York City, the younger daughter of Sylvia Drescher (born 1934), a bridal consultant, and Morty Drescher (1929–2024), a naval systems analyst
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