| Francine Joy Drescher is an American film, television actress and an "it girl". She is famous for her nasal voice, "machine-gun" laugh, and Queens accent. She continued to play small but memorable roles in movies, until she finally created her own vehicle, The Nanny. She was visiting her friend, model Twiggy, 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 woman, named Fran Fine, who casually became the pantyhose-clad nanny of three children; with her wit and her charm, she endeared herself to their widower father Maxwell Sheffield, a stuffy, composed, proper British gentleman and a Broadway producer. In the late 1990s, she was a defendant in a lawsuit, and later dismissed from it. Acerbic comic Dennis Miller remarked that "no one wanted to have to listen to her testify. 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 executive produced) and Picking Up the Pieces (2000) co-starring Woody Allen. After separating in 1996, Fran divorced her husband, Peter Jacobson, in 1999. She then dated a man 16 years her junior from 1998-2002. Her beloved dog, Chester, who made many appearances in her movies and on "The Nanny", died in 2000 at age 18. She now has a chocolate pomeranian, named Esther, and lives in New York.
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