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Popularity: 3 Vote:	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.
Popularity: -2 Vote:	And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	But ultimately I think that you need to go to either New York for theater or Los Angeles for television and movies.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	However, since the anthrax scare, the studio has prohibited all fan mail and I no longer receive it for the time being.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I definitely do support The American Cancer Foundation, as well as a myriad of other cancer groups and hospitals.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I definitely have a Queens identity, and that's what I'm preserving in this show.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I did do acupuncture, which helped me a lot to reduce the internal inflammation.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I don't like when they interview me and they don't have a tape recorder, and they just take written notes. It's a surefire indication that I am going to be mis-quoted.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I had stage one uterine cancer, and after my surgery it was considered 95 per cent non-recurring.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I had to do something with this voice. And don't expect that to change!
Popularity: -2 Vote:	I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I have a hang-up thinking I have to be everyone?s caretaker and no-one can deal except me.
Popularity: 5 Vote:	I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I have no idea why this decision was made, and I have much regret that the audience that supported us all these years will be shortchanged.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
Popularity: 4 Vote:	I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I love Pom's, there are wonderful little doggies.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I made an audio tape of my book, which I think is really excellent, although it's an abridged version of the book.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I was always loving, involved with charities and family, and I had a rich life before. Now, I have a purpose. I got sick maybe for this reason.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I'm very committed to changing legislation to broaden the scope of women's health care but, at the same time, I want to live my life to the fullest.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	It took me a long time to recover, so my close friends and my family stayed with me. I was in a place in my life were I was really ready to reach out.
Popularity: -2 Vote:	It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Surgery is half the race, but you have to go for the follow-up or do yourself a major disservice.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	The accent is mine!
Popularity: 3 Vote:	The thing about Fran Fine is she'll always be the flashy girl from Flushing.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	We had to do a radical hysterectomy.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Writing Cancer Schmancer was very cathartic and painful.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	You know, I felt very vulnerable.

Biography

Francine Joy Drescher (born in Flushing, New York, on September 30, 1956) is an American actress.

She was a studious girl and was quite popular. In fact, at age fifteen she'd met the man she thought she'd spend the rest of her life with. That man was Peter Marc Jacobson. Her first break was a bit part in the unforgettable movie, Saturday Night Fever (1977).

In 1985, robbers ransacked Drescher's apartment and raped her and one of her girlfriends. It took her many years to overcome this obstacle, 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 chalk her experience into something positive; she saw her rapist sent to prison.

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 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 young girl, named Fran Fine, who casually become the nanny of three children; with her wit and her charm she made love her their father, a composed Broadway producer, named Maxwell Sheffield (played by Charles Shaughnessy). As Fran Fine, Fran Drescher displayed an innate comedic talent, and a great sense of humour.

Her voice is a combination of a high nasal pitch and a New York/Jewish accent that many people find unpleasant, although others (including her first husband) found it endearing. In her autobiography Drescher discusses the fact that this is, in fact, her real voice, and the many voice lessons she has had to take to overcome it for movie auditions (only to have it end up being her trademark).

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. In 1999 Fran divorced her husband, Peter Marc Jacobson.

Fran Drescher was admitted to Los Angeles's Cedars Sinai Hospital on 21 June 2000, after doctors diagnosed her with uterine cancer. But emergency surgery caught it early as it was only at Stage 1 and she didn't have to have radiation or chemotherapy. She has been given a clean bill of health and no post-operative treatment has been ordered. She wrote about her experiences in the book Cancer Schmancer, an inspiring story of perseverance in the face of overwhelming obstacles.

In 2005 she returned on TV with the sitcom Living with Fran, in which she played Fran Reeves, a charming middle-age woman living with Riley Martin, a guy barely older than her son.

Filmography

*Saturday Night Fever (1977)
*American Hot Wax (1978)
*Gorp (1980)
*The Hollywood Knights (1980)
*Ragtime (1981)
*Doctor Detroit (1983)
*The Rosebud Beach Hotel (1984)
*This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
*Young Lust (1984)
*It Had to Be You (1989)
*UHF (1989)
*The Big Picture (1989)
*Wedding Band (1990)
*Cadillac Man (1990)
*We're Talking Serious Money (1992)
*Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)
*Jack (1996)
*The Beautician and the Beast (1997) (also executive producer)
*Kid Quick (2000) (short subject)
*Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
*Santa's Slay (2005)

...(more on Wikipedia)

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