Fran Drescher
Born: September 30, 1957
Place: Flushing Queens, New York
Fran Drescher grew up in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. She was a studious girl who was popular in school. She attended Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens, where she met her future husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, eventually marrying him in 1978, at age 21.
Drescher’s first break was bit part in the movie “Saturday Night Fever.” She continued to play small but memorable roles in movies, until she and her husband finally created her own television show, “The Nanny” in 1993. She was visiting her friend, model Twiggy, in England and came up with the plotline. The showed aired on CBS from 1973 to 1999. The show became an instant success, and Drescher became an instant star.
Drescher’s voice is a combination of high nasal pitch and a Queens, New York accent that people find annoying, endearing, or humorous.
Fran married her high school sweetheart, Peter Marc Jacobson, in 1978. Jacobson was Drescher’s constant supporter in her show-business career, and he wrote, directed, and produced her signature television series, “The Nanny.” They divorced in 1999.
In January 1985, robbers ransacked Drescher’s and Jacobson’s Los Angeles apartment and raped her and a friend at gunpoint. It took her many years to overcome this ordeal, and it took her even longer to admit this to the press.
On June 21, 2000, she was admitted to Los Angeles’s Cedar Sinai Hospital, after doctors diagnosed her with uterine cancer. Emergency surgery caught it early as it was only at Stage 1 and she didn’t have to undergo chemotherapy.
She announced the national launch of the Cancer Schmancer Movement, on June 21, 2007, the day which marked her 7th anniversary of wellness. This is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that all women’s cancers be diagnosed while in Stage 1, the most curable stage.
Born: September 30, 1957
Place: Flushing Queens, New York
Fran Drescher grew up in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. She was a studious girl who was popular in school. She attended Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens, where she met her future husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, eventually marrying him in 1978, at age 21.
Drescher’s first break was bit part in the movie “Saturday Night Fever.” She continued to play small but memorable roles in movies, until she and her husband finally created her own television show, “The Nanny” in 1993. She was visiting her friend, model Twiggy, in England and came up with the plotline. The showed aired on CBS from 1973 to 1999. The show became an instant success, and Drescher became an instant star.
Drescher’s voice is a combination of high nasal pitch and a Queens, New York accent that people find annoying, endearing, or humorous.
Fran married her high school sweetheart, Peter Marc Jacobson, in 1978. Jacobson was Drescher’s constant supporter in her show-business career, and he wrote, directed, and produced her signature television series, “The Nanny.” They divorced in 1999.
In January 1985, robbers ransacked Drescher’s and Jacobson’s Los Angeles apartment and raped her and a friend at gunpoint. It took her many years to overcome this ordeal, and it took her even longer to admit this to the press.
On June 21, 2000, she was admitted to Los Angeles’s Cedar Sinai Hospital, after doctors diagnosed her with uterine cancer. Emergency surgery caught it early as it was only at Stage 1 and she didn’t have to undergo chemotherapy.
She announced the national launch of the Cancer Schmancer Movement, on June 21, 2007, the day which marked her 7th anniversary of wellness. This is 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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