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Fran Drescher
Sign in to saveAlso known as Francine Joy "Fran" Drescher, Francine Joy Drescher, Francine Drescher
American actress
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 30 Sep 1957
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Silhouette Solution
- Surviving American Medicine
- Chicken Soup for the Soul - Find Your Inner Strength
- Being Wendy
- Enter Whining
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Wiener Neustadt
- Active from
- 2013
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 419
- Total plays
- 12,276
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Francine Joy "Fran" Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and television actress, comedian, screenwriter, television director, producer, author, activist and political lobbyist best known for playing Fran Fine on the television series The Nanny. In September 2009 Drescher published her first song, Eye For An Eye, which has since been exclusively available on iTunes. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Fran+Drescher">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Circulating microRNAs as stable blood-based markers for cancer detection
· 2008 · cited 6,720x
- Inflammation and cancer: back to Virchow?
· 2001 · cited 6,256x
- REVIGO Summarizes and Visualizes Long Lists of Gene Ontology Terms
· 2011 · cited 5,885x
- Functional Network Organization of the Human Brain
· 2011 · cited 3,983x
- Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness
· 2007 · cited 3,708x
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Gabrielle Carteris
- Succeeded by
- Sean Astin
- Born
- Francine Joy Drescher , ( 1957-09-30 ) September 30, 1957 (age 68) , New York City , U.S.
- Party
- Democratic
- Spouse
- Peter Marc Jacobson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1978 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1999 )
- Domestic partner
- Shiva Ayyadurai (2014–2016)
- Education
- Queens College, CUNY (no degree)
- Occupation
- Actress writer comedian producer trade unionist
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Fran Drescher 2018.jpg
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- Commons category
- Fran Drescher
- date of birth
- 1957-10-30
- birth name
- Francine Joy Drescher
- social media followers
- 279330
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
- name in native language
- Fran Drescher
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Francine Joy Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American actress, writer, comedian, producer, and former trade union leader. She played Fran Fine in the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999), which she created and produced with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson.
Drescher 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 film Stranger in Our House (1978). In the 1980s, she worked as a comedic actress in the films Gorp (1980), The Hollywood Knights (1980), Doctor Detroit (1983), This Is Spinal Tap (1984), and UHF (1989), and made guest appearances on several television series.