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Who is Fran Drescher?

Fran Drescher was born Francine Joy Drescher in Flushing, Queens, New York City on 30th September 1957, she of Eastern European decent. Her career spans movies, television, comedy and writing. Her first role was a bit part in "Saturday Night Fever" in 1977. She is best know for the television sitcom "The Nanny", which aired on CBS from 1993 to 1999. It is her voice that most people remember her for, it has a high, nasal pitch and add in the New York accent and people either love it or hate it but they remember it. Fran has appeared in twenty movies over her career, though not many while The Nanny was airing. As well she has been in twelve TV shows, most of which were cancelled in a very short time. Fran has authored two books so far. Currently she devotes a lot of time to her "Cancer Schmancer Foundation", a non-profit organisation devoted to getting cancers diagnosed when still in stage one. She started the foundation after she was diagnosed with stage one uterine cancer in 2000, luckily she is fully recovered but only because it was discovered in stage one. She met her husband when she was fifteen, marrying Peter Marc Jacobson in 1978 when she was twenty-one.