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Fran Drescher (born in Flushing,
New York, on September 30, 1956) is an American actress. |
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She was a studious girl and was quite
popular. In fact, at age fifteen she'd met the man she thought she'd spend
the rest of her life with. That man was Peter Marc Jacobson. Her first
break was in the unforgettable movie, Saturday Night Fever (1977), with
John Travolta. |
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In 1985, robbers ransacked Drescher's
apartment and raped her and one of her girlfriends. It took her many years
to overcome this obstacle, and it took her even longer to admit this to
the press. She was paraphrased as saying in an interview with Larry King
that although it was a very negative experience, she found ways to chalk
her experience into something positive; she saw her rapist sent to prison. |
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She continued to play small roles
in movies, until she came up with the idea for The Nanny. She was visiting
a friend in England and came up with the plotline. The show aired on CBS
from 1993 to 1999, becoming an instant success, and so did Fran. In this
sitcom she played a charming and bubbly young girl, named Fran Fine, who
casually become the nanny of three children; with her wit and her charme
she made love her their father, a composed Broadway producer, named Maxwell
Sheffield (played by Charles Shaughnessy). As Fran Fine, Fran Drescher
displayed an innate comedic talent, and a great sense of humour. |
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Her voice is a combination of a high
nasal pitch and a New York/Jewish accent that many people find unpleasant.
In her autobiography Drescher discusses the fact that this is, in fact,
her real voice, and the many voice lessons she has had to take to overcome
it for movie auditions (only to have it end up being her trademark). |
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During her TV experience, she also
appeared in a number of films, including Jack (1996), directed by Francis
Ford Coppola, The Beautician and the Beast (1997) (which she also produced)
and Picking Up the Pieces (2000) co-starring Woody Allen. In 1999 Fran
divorced from her husband, Peter Marc Jacobson. |
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Fran Drescher was admitted to Los
Angeles's Cedars Sinai Hospital on 21 June 2000, after doctors diagnosed
her with uterine cancer. But emergency surgery caught it early as it was
only at Stage 1 and she didn't have to have radiation or chemotherapy.
She has been given a clean bill of health and no post-operative treatment
has been ordered. She wrote about her experiences in the book Cancer Schmancer,
an inspiring story of perseverance in the face of overwhelming obstacles. |
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In 2005 she returned on TV with the
sitcom Living with Fran, in which she played Fran Reeves, a charming middle-age
woman living with Riley Martin, a guy barely older than her son. |
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