Native New Yorker Fran Drescher is from Flushing, Queens where she attended Hillcrest High school with another now-famous name, Ray Romano. 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. She continued to play small roles in movies, until she came up with the idea for The Nanny (1993). She was visiting a friend in England and came up with the plot line. The Nanny became an instant success, and so did Fran. Since then, she has been in films such as The Beautician and the Beast (1997) (which she also produced) and Picking Up the Pieces (2000) co-starring Woody Allen. Fran has since divorced her husband Jacobson. She is a cancer survivor and an inspiration to women everywhere.On February 4, 2014, Drescher made her Broadway debut in Cinderella as stepmother Madame. In 2019 she made her TV stand up comedy debut hosting Showtime’s “Funny Women of a Certain Age.” Don’t miss seeing one the funniest women on the planet live!
