Fran Drescher turns 69 this year, and somehow she still manages to look exactly like the person Hollywood warned everyone about in the 90s. Loud. Jewish. From Queens. Unapologetic. That hasn’t changed. And most importantly, she still having fun. Thirty-two years after The Nanny premiered in 1993, she’s not fading into nostalgia or pretending to be shocked that people still talk about her. She knows why you’re still watching.
At a recent Cinema Society screening in New York, Drescher told Page Six about her dating life with the same confidence that once powered Fran Fine’s walk into the Sheffield mansion. “I have a little rotation,” she laughed. When the reporter pressed, she shrugged it off. “I’m Fran Drescher. What do you think?!” She clarified that marriage isn’t on the table. Her ex-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, whom she met at 15 and married in 1978, remains one of her closest people. They separated in 1996, divorced in 1999 after he came out as gay, and somehow built a healthier bond than most couples who stay married. She still loves him. She’s just realistic about what she has space for now.
In 2020, she admitted to having “someone on the side who is a friend with benefits,” seeing them twice a month because work came first. These days, work has slowed for reasons outside her control. A Broadway adaptation of The Nanny stalled after the actors’ strike, the death of her father in 2024, and fires in the Palisades that damaged her home. “You have to be in the right frame of mind,” she said. “I’m very gentle with myself… I share what I’m going through.” Her house was still standing, just not livable. She split time between Beverly Hills and New York City.
On September 30, 2025, she celebrated her 68th birthday by receiving the 2,822nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Leopard print dress. Cheetah pumps. Red lipstick. Standing beside her were Nicholle Tom and Madeline Zima, who played Maggie and Gracie Sheffield, and Jacobson, her co-creator and former husband. Madeline Zima nailed it in her tribute. “Fran Drescher is not just a household name; she is the household.” Nicholle Tom added, “Fran, I love you. I’ve always looked up to you, even though I had to wear flats.”
The Nanny ran for six seasons from 1993 to 1999 and quietly changed who got to lead a sitcom. Working-class Jewish women from Queens were suddenly stylish, sharp, sexual, and funny. Drescher earned two Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations and became a fashion reference point without trying to be polite about it.
That confidence took work. Early in her career, casting directors told her to lose the voice. Even her high school drama teacher suggested elocution lessons. A casting director once complained she spoke “very slowly for an 18-hour miniseries.” She stopped chasing approval and named her lane. “I’m a pretty girl with a funny voice, who can do comedy. That’s my sweet spot.”
Surviving uterine cancer at 42 reshaped her priorities. Diagnosed at stage one, she later linked the illness to unresolved trauma from being raped at gunpoint in 1985. Instead of retreating, she built the Cancer Schmancer Movement and started telling women to stop ignoring their bodies. “Don’t ignore something and hope it goes away,” she said. “Stop that!”
She’s still working. She recently played Timothée Chalamet’s mother in Marty Supreme and joked, “It’s not like he wanted to be my best friend… even though I was open to it!”
Fans keep asking about a Nanny revival. In 2023, she confirmed talks with Sony. But nothing is locked in. The show streams now, millennials are rewatching it properly, and gay bars still remember Nanny nights. Fran knows why it lasts. “The clothes, the jokes, the gay humor, the sexual tension,” she said. Kids missed it.
She never needed to change. Fran Drescher is always beautiful as she is.
