Francine Joy Drescher (born in Flushing, Queens, New York City on September 30, 1957) is an American film and television actress. She is famous for her nasally voice, "machine-gun" laugh, and Queens accent.

Biography

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Early life and career

Born on September 30, 1957, to Russian-Jewish parents, Morty and Sylvia, Drescher was a studious girl and was quite popular in school. In fact, at age fifteen she'd met the man she thought she would spend much of her life with: Peter Marc Jacobson. Her first break was a bit part in the movie Saturday Night Fever (1977). A year later, she married Jacobson.

In January 1985, robbers ransacked Drescher's Los Angeles apartment and raped her and a friend at gunpoint. It took her many years to overcome this ordeal, and it took her even longer to admit this to the press. She was paraphrased as saying in an interview with Larry King that although it was a very negative experience, she found ways to turn her experience into something positive; she saw her rapist sent to prison.

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