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. She also made an appearance in a second-season episode of Who's the Boss? in 1985 as an interior decorator. She also took on a rare dramatic role in the 1981 Miloš Forman film, Ragtime.ĭuring the 1980s, Drescher found moderate success as a character actress with memorable roles in films such as Gorp (1980), The Hollywood Knights (1980), Doctor Detroit (1983), The Big Picture (1989), UHF (1989), Cadillac Man (1990), and memorably in This Is Spinal Tap (1984) as publicist Bobbi Flekman. A year later, she began to gain attention in films such as American Hot Wax (1978) and Summer of Fear (1978).
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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, Nadine.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. ĭrescher was born on September 30, 1957, in Queens, 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 comedy Indebted.
On February 4, 2014, Drescher made her Broadway debut in Cinderella as stepmother Madame. Since 2012, she has starred in the animated Hotel Transylvania film series. In the 2000s, Drescher reinforced her position as a leading sitcom star with Living with Fran and Happily Divorced.
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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. Drescher is known for her role as Fran Fine in the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999).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). Francine Joy Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American actress, comedian, writer, activist, and trade union leader.