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). Francine Joy Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American actress, comedian, writer, activist, and trade union leader.

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