Biography
Francine Joy Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American actress, comedian, writer, activist, and trade union leader. Drescher is known for her role as Fran Fine in the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999). Drescher made her screen debut with a small role in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, and later appeared in American Hot Wax (1978) and Wes Craven's horror tale Stranger in Our House (1978). In the 1980s, she gained recognition as a comedic actress in the films Gorp (1980), The Ho...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Marty Supreme
2025
Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
2025
as Bobbi Flekman
Spinal Tap, England's loudest and most punctual band, reunite following a 15-year hiatus for one final concert.

A Tooth Fairy Tale
2025
Van, the brave son of a tooth fairy leader, meets the goblins girl Gemma on his first mission. Despite the myths about ancient disputes between fairie...

Twiggy
2025
as Self
Twiggy takes a comprehensive look at the life story of UK model and cultural icon Twiggy, real name Lesley Lawson, whose career kickstarted in the 196...

Pamela, A Love Story
2023
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
In her own words, through personal video and diaries, Pamela Anderson shares the story of her rise to fame, rocky romances and infamous sex tape scand...

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
2022
as Eunice (voice)
When Van Helsing's mysterious invention, the "Monsterfication Ray," goes haywire, Drac and his monster pals are all transformed into humans, and Johnn...

The Christmas Setup
2020
as Kate Spencer
Follows the story of New York lawyer Hugo who heads to Milwaukee with his best friend Madelyn to spend the holidays with his brother Aiden and his mom...

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
2020
as Joanne
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a celebration of the lives lost to AIDS told in free-verse monologues with a blues, jazz and rock score...

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020
as Self
From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of...

After Class
2019
as Diane
An NYC Professor spends the week reconnecting with his family while defending his reputation over controversial behavior at his college. Meanwhile, hi...

The Creatress
2019
as Carrie Robards
Young, bestselling author Eryn Bellow concludes her bookstore tour with her agent selling film rights and closing a six figure advance for her follow-...

Funny Women of a Certain Age
2019
as Herself
Fran Drescher leads a cast of mature women of standup in a night of uninhibited comedy. Starring Fran Drescher, Carole Montgomery, Luenell, Lynne Kopl...

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
2018
as Eunice (voice)
Dracula, Mavis, Johnny and the rest of the Drac Pack take a vacation on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship, where Dracula falls in love with the ship’s capt...

Seven Women
2018
A deep insight in the life of 7 women: journalists, costume designers, actors and so on: Rosita Missoni founder, with Ottavio, of fashion house Misson...

Hotel Transylvania 2
2015
as Eunice (voice)
When the old-old-old-fashioned vampire Vlad arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in for a collision of sup...

Brave Miss World
2013
Linor Abargil, an Israeli beauty queen, was raped two months before being crowned Miss World in 1998. Ten years later, she’s ready to talk about it – ...

Skum Rocks!
2013
as Self
The unbelievable true story of the band that gained massive east coast popularity in the late 1980s despite having a complete lack of musical talent a...

Hotel Transylvania
2012
as Eunice (voice)
Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One spe...

Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
2008
as Morgan Le Fay
A production of the beloved Lerner and Loewe musical "Camelot," about the love triangle involving King Arthur (Gabriel Byrne), Guenevere (Marin Mazzie...

Shark Bait
2006
as Pearl (voice)
After losing everything, a young fish, Pi, goes to live with his family on the Reef. There he meets the love of his life but finds that she already ha...

Santa's Slay
2005
as Virginia Mason
Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an angel, so he became the giver of toys and happiness. But this year the bet is off, and Santa is...

The Nanny Reunion: A Nosh to Remember
2004
as Self
The cast members reminisce about the show and present exclusive blooper footage never shown on television, as well as an update on their current activ...

Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
2004
as Self (archive footage)
Come one, come all for Sesame Street's 35th anniversary musical gathering! Is there one song the whole world can sing together? Find out when Super Gr...

Beautiful Girl
2003
as Amanda
Despite discouragement from her mother, a woman enters a beauty pageant in hope of winning a free honeymoon.
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
2000
as Self
For more than 30 years, Lucille Ball was one of the most recognized and loved entertainers in the world. Known to all simply as Lucy, she portrayed a ...

Picking Up the Pieces
2000
as Sister Frida
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband...

Treyf
1998
TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover “seder”. With perso...

The Beautician and the Beast
1997
as Joy Miller
A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.

The Beautician and the Beast
1997
Executive Producer
A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.

Jack
1996
as Dolores Durante
Jack Powell suffers from an affliction that makes him grow four times faster than normal, so the 10 year old boy looks like a 40 year old man. After y...

Car 54, Where Are You?
1994
as Velma Velour
Brash NYC policeman Officer Gunther Toody is partnered with stiff, by-the-book Officer Francis Muldoon to protect an important mafia witness prior to ...

Without Warning: Terror in the Towers
1993
as Rosemarie Russo
Massive rescue efforts are mobilized to save occupants of New York City's World Trade Center after a terrorist bombing. Based on the events surroundin...

We're Talkin' Serious Money
1992
as Valerie
A couple of bumbling con men go on the lam when they can't repay a loan from the mob.

Cadillac Man
1990
as Joy Munchack
Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe h...

Wedding Band
1990
as Veronica
A couple who both work at wedding receptions encounter complications when they decide to marry.
It Had to Be You
1989
A has-been actress lures a TV commercial director to her apartment to seduce him.

The Big Picture
1989
as Polo Habel
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Stu...

UHF
1989
as Pamela Finklestein
The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.

Love and Betrayal
1989
as Germaine
Caroline Landry's husband has a sudden mid-life crisis and their idealistic 20-year marriage breaks apart when he leaves her for a younger woman. With...

Rock 'N Roll Mum
1988
as Jody Levin
Dyan Cannon portrays Annie Hackett, an aspiring singer and suburban mother of two, who rocks and rolls her way through her household chores. When one ...

The Rosebud Beach Hotel
1984
as Linda
After taking over a failing Miami hotel with her workaholic fiancé, Elliot, Tracy thinks Liza has seduced her better half-to-be. She then tries to hav...

Young Lust: A Soap Opera
1984
as Sondra Banning
The reunion of Garytown High School’s class of ‘71 is a catalyst for a series of comic crises involving sex, drugs, murder and anatomical oddities.

This Is Spinal Tap
1984
as Bobbi Flekman
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its...

Doctor Detroit
1983
as Karen Blittstein
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago....

Ragtime
1981
as Mameh
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nos...

The Hollywood Knights
1980
as Sally
Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. E...

Gorp
1980
as Evie
Pranksters cause trouble at a summer camp for rich kids.

Stranger in Our House
1979
as Carolyn Baker
A country family of five take in charming cousin Julie, whose parents recently died in a car crash, though teenaged daughter Rachel grows suspect that...

American Hot Wax
1978
as Sheryl
This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock'n'roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s. Free...

Saturday Night Fever
1977
as Connie
Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and th...
Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary
N/A
as Self
Tracks the evolution of the union between 2008 and 2024, a time that saw a failed strike authorization, a merger and the 2023 work stoppage.