Living joyfully like The Nanny

Fran Drescher plays Fran Fine in The Nanny, which made her a star.
Fran Drescher plays Fran Fine in The Nanny, which made her a star.PHOTO: TRISTAR TELEVISION
PUBLISHED
MAR 23, 2016, 5:00 AM SGT
Media Correspondent
 
 
Fran Drescher's voice immediately gives her away: brassy, nasal and with a soupy Noo-Yawk accent.

"People always say, 'I can't believe that's your real voice', and I say, 'Who could make this up?'", the actress says with a chuckle that is a cross between a dry heave and a snort.

That distinctive set of pipes will always be associated with the character of Fran Fine in The Nanny (1993-1999), the sitcom that turned Drescher into a star. In the comedy, which airs weeknights on Hits channel starting from Friday, she played a Jewish-American woman who ends up as a nanny to British Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield's three children.

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