Fran Drescher
Fran Drescher Trivia
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In November 2003, Fran was doing commercials for Old Navy along with 'Kimberly 'Lil' Kim' Jones' .
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Fran has backed Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential election.
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In the movie Santa's Slay, she played a woman celebrating Christmas with her family. In reality, she is one of the world's most famous Jewish comediennes.
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Her favorite TV show while growing up was I Love Lucy.
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She was nominated for a Razzie award in 1998 for her role in the movie Beautician and the Beast.
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Her favorite movie is Annie Hall.
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During her first years as a professional actor, she often phased out her trademark nasal accent in order to get roles. Ironically, she got more roles with the accent than without it.
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She appeared as a dancing gypsy in the music video "The Way" by Fastball.
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She is often believed to be from Italian descent, something she has denied.
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In 1996, she was chosen as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world by People magazine.
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She has been nominated for an Outstanding Lead Actress In a Comedy Series Emmy twice, in 1996 and 1997 for The Nanny.
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She was runner-up in the 1973 Miss New York Teen pageant.
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She was told by one of her first agents that she would never succeed in the acting business unless she lost her trademark accent.
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She was the face of Hanes in 1994, appearing in commercials and print ads for the store.
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She had a dog called Chester Drescher who died age 19 in 2001. She currently owns a Pomeranian named Esther Drescher.
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Her parents are Sylvia and Morty Drescher.
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She and her husband pitched the idea for The Nanny to the president of CBS on a plane journey to Paris. The pilot was filmed less than a year later.
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She is good friends with legendary supermodel Twiggy.
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In 2000, she was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Thankfully, it was caught early and she didn't have to go through any type of chemotherapy. Her experiences formed her 2002 book "Cancer Schmancer".
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She was reunited with Charles Shaugnessy, her co-star on The Nanny, on her sitcom Living with Fran in 2006.
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Fran is a big fan of the rock band Phish and has been spotted at many of their concerts.
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Fran is a friend of Twiggy Larson and it was her interaction with Twiggy's children that was used as the basis for The Nanny.
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Fran is the younger of two daughters.
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Fran Drescher had a bit part in the disco movie Saturday Night Fever. She danced with John Travolta about midway through the movie. She had a few speaking lines.
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She went to Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York with actor Ray Romano.
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Fran was raped at gunpoint on January 5, 1985. Two men broke into her house, tied up her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, and proceeded to rape her and close friend, Judi, who had the misfortune of having joined them for dinner.
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She abides by a dairy-free diet.
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(July 2003) Fran had a stint doing a play in New York for a week. It was one of her first dramatic roles.
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She is most known for her nasal voice (as she puts it, "talkin' through the schnoz").
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Fran worte two books: Enter Whining (1996), and Cancer Schmancer (2002). Both books are now out of print.
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Fran is left-handed.
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Fran's parents in The Nanny are named Sylvia and Morty, the same names as Fran Drescher's real life parents, an idea Fran came up with herself.
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She was married to actor Peter Marc Jacobson from 1978 until the two separated in 1996 and divorced in 1999.
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Fran (on running to replace Hilary Clinton's soon-to-be vacant seat in the Senate, December 2008): I've just been given the appointment of U.S. diplomat. My title is public diplomacy envoy for women's health issues, and I just got back from a four-country European tour of duty. I believe next I'll be sent to the Middle East. I've been very successful in getting a bill passed in Washington. I was thinking I'd take the next four years to lay some groundwork, but I'm throwing my hat in the ring. I'm an authentic and honest person. And I think Capitol Hill needs more of that.
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Fran Drescher: I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
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Fran: (On her relationship with a younger man) It ran its course. Sometimes people come into your life for a season and other times for a lifetime. I believe he came into my life for a reason: to get me through my bout with cancer. Our relationship lasted for two years after that, and then it was time to move on. But there was a lot that came out of that and certainly a lot to draw on creatively.
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Fran: Think peace.
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Fran Drescher: However, since the anthrax scare, the studio has prohibited all fan mail and I no longer receive it for the time being.
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Fran Drescher: Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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Fran Drescher: But ultimately I think that you need to go to either New York for theater or Los Angeles for television and movies.
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Fran Drescher: Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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Fran Drescher:And it was hard for me to see who I was. And I could not believe the way I changed. My hips were swollen, and green and discoloured. I had a red horizontal gash across my pubic bone from the incision.
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