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Francine Joy Drescher was born in Flushing, Queens, New York to Morty and Sylvia Drescher. Fran attended Hillcrest High school in New York with another now-famous name, Ray Romano. Her first break was in the unforgettable movie, Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta. 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 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 (which she also produced) and Picking Up the Pieces co-starring Woody Allen.
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– Went to Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, as did her former husband, Peter Marc Jacobson.
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– Her father, Mort Drescher, has appeared on The nanny (1993) on more than one occasion.
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– Is a survivor of uterine cancer.
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– Measurements: 34B-24-34 1/2 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
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– A Patient Advocate on the External Advisory Board for the M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston, Texas. Also the 2002 recipient of the Public Service Award from the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation.
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– Became good friends with Dan Aykroyd and Donna Dixon, after co-starring with them in the 1983 film, DOCTOR DETROIT (1983).
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– Abides by a dairy-free diet.
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– Was told that she'd never make it in this business unless she lost her thick New York accent.
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– Famously bumped into the (then) president of CBS, Jeff Sagansky, on a plane trip to Paris. She convinced him to hear her and her husband Peter's ideas for a television show. After impressing him with her persistence, intelligence, and charm, The Nanny (1993) pilot was filmed less than a year later.
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– Was first runner up for Miss New York Teenager in 1973. In order to get an agent, she lied when calling up talent agencies and said she was the winner. It worked and an agent was found.
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– Earlier in her career, in an effort to get more roles as an actress, she once went to a professional to lose her nasal voice and thick New York accent. She was very successful in learning how to speak normal, but couldn't get any work that way! By that point, people only wanted to hire if she used the funny voice. Meanwhile, it was the voice that made her famous years later.
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– Casting agents continued to tell Fran that her thick Queens accent was holding her back during auditions.
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– Fran and Peter moved from New York to Los Angeles in the early eighties.
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– In 1985, Fran and Peter's home was broken into. Fran was raped. They moved in with their good friends Dan Aykroyd and Donna Dixon for a short time.
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– 'The Nanny' was inspired from a personal experience. Fran visited her friend Twiggy in Europe and while she was there, she stayed with Twiggy's teenage daughter as she traveled quite a bit with her modeling career.
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