Fran Drescher (Fran Drescher) - American actress, who gained popularity after participating in the famous series "Nanny", which was released in 1993-1999. In the CIS, viewers are more familiar with the indirect image of her heroine, embodied in the life of Anastasia Zavorotnyuk in the Russian sitcom My Fair Nanny, which was an adapted version of the overseas project. Not all films with Fran Drescher are familiar to a wide range of film enthusiasts, she most clearly showed herself as a television actress.
Queens Girl
Not all artists are lucky to gain popularity at an early age. Some have the great honor of a career in starring films, dejectedly waiting for their only chance of success. About the same fate befell Fran Drescher, whose complete filmography gives the impression of a large gray spot, on which only the series “Nanny” stands out.
Fran was born in 1957 in New York. She grew up with her elder sister Nadine in a Jewish family that once emigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe. Since childhood, the future calf dreamed of becoming an actress, participated in all school theater productions. However, a nasal, hoarse voice, and even with a pronounced voice of a girl from a Jewish town, Fran greatly interfered, and she worked hard to correct speech deficiencies.
She indirectly came into contact with the world of cinema while still at school, as she studied at Hilcrest High School with the subsequently famous actor Ray Romano. At school, she met her future husband - Peter Mark Jacobson.
Carier start
The first films of Fran Drescher say little to a wide range of film enthusiasts. She made her debut in 1977 with a small role in the film "Saturday Night Fever." Soon, she continued her assault on Hollywood Olympus with works in the films “American Wax” and “Stranger in Your Home”.
Break the girls to the main heights prevented all the same children's flaws. Fran Drescher was incredibly beautiful, had a dramatic talent, but a peculiar voice prevented her from getting out of the role of characteristic, eccentric characters. Therefore, in the eighties, she became known as a comedic actress. At this time, she appears in such films as “Hollywood Knights”, “Doctor Detroit”, “The Man in the Cadillac”. In addition, the girl tries her hand at television, where her comedic talent was very much in demand.
Hairdresser and nanny
Fran Drescher in her youth was not one of the most sought-after Hollywood actresses, the breaks between filming sometimes dragged on for quite some time. In order not to sit idle and earn a living, she had to master professions that had a fairly distant relation to film and television.
So, the girl quite well mastered the skills of a hairdresser and even thought about devoting herself completely to this occupation and opening her own small business.
Among friends Fran Drescher was a top model Twiggy, rattled around the world in the sixties. From time to time, an American visited her friend in London, at the same time coaching her skills in dealing with children. Twiggy led a busy social life, and Fran Drescher had to spend time with her daughter. It was then that in the practical and quick-witted mind of the daughter of Sylvia and Morton Drescher, the idea began to emerge of making a nanny a bright and funny television show from the routine and boring work of a nanny. Later, she shared her ideas with her husband, and the couple began to work together on the script “Nannies”.
Work on television
In the early nineties, Fran Drescher managed to get his first major role on television. The producers of the series “Princess” invited the charismatic actress to their project, and she faithfully worked out her bread, filming ten to twelve hours a day. However, the sitcom did not gain deafening popularity and safely closed after a couple of seasons.
To achieve success
For Fran Drescher, it is time to act and implement the idea of his own series, which she wore and developed for several years. An unforeseen incident helped the case. Once, Fran was flying on a plane and found out that in business class, the CBS broadcaster was traveling on the same flight.
Confident girl did not hesitate to transfer to a salon for the elite and met with the almighty producer. Along the way, Drescher set out to him the idea of a series about a nanny from an ordinary Jewish district working in the house of a wealthy and successful businessman. The head of CBS decided that this could turn out to be a good comedy show and agreed to cooperate. The television company bought the script from Drescher and approved it in the title role.
"Nanny"
The series "Nanny" was launched for the show in 1993. Bright, funny sitcom has gained extraordinary popularity among viewers in the United States. The story of Cinderella, retold in a new way, warmed the hearts of girls, and especially single middle-aged ladies who unwittingly associated themselves with the clockwork and showy nanny Fran. In this project, Drescher no longer had to gloss over the shortcomings of his imperfect reprimand and hide the emphasis, on the contrary, it became a kind of highlight and visiting card of the actress.
The cheerful, frustrated nanny, leading a constant attack of the heart of impregnable Mr. Maxwell, was one of the favorite heroines of US television of the nineties. Filming continued until 1999, in connection with which there was a problem of growing up children, who were watched by the heroine Fran.
In the end, the fame of “Nanny” crossed the ocean, and many foreign television companies decided to adapt the hasty project to local realities and began to buy plot rights. In Russia, viewers watched the adventures of the nanny, which was masterfully performed by Anastasia Zavorotnyuk.
Heavy millennium
After the success on the television "Nanny" films with Fran Drescher began to enjoy more popularity, and the actress is more often acted in films. In the second half of the nineties, she appeared in the films "Jack", "Hairdresser and the Beast, " "Piece by Piece."
The change of eras was not easy for Fran Drescher. In 1999, her marriage broke up with Peter Jacobsen, with whom they lived together for more than twenty years. The misfortunes did not end there, in 2000 the actress was discovered a terrible disease - uterine cancer. Fortunately, the disease was diagnosed in the early stages, and timely treatment was successful, without leaving serious consequences.
Defeating the disease, Fran decided to share her experience and wrote an entire book, Cancer Schmuck, in which she described her history of the fight against cancer. Later, she founded the eponymous charitable organization, which set as its task the early diagnosis of cancer in women.
Politician
Fran Drescher led an active social life. In the 2000s, she joined the Democratic Party and was even appointed an official diplomat of the US Department of State. Given her successful charity work, Fran was appointed ambassador for women's health. Traveling around the world, Drescher was to support the US initiatives in the field of medicine and health.
