Francine "Fran" Joy Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American film and television actress, comedian, screenwriter, tv director, producer, author, activist and political lobbyist best known for playing Fran Fine on the television series The Nanny.

Drescher was born in Kew Gardens Hills, New York to an Ashkenazi Jewish family of Eastern European origin (her great-grandmother was born in Focşani, Romania).. Her parents are Sylvia and Morty Drescher and she has an elder sister, Nadine.

She was a first runner-up for "Miss New York Teenager" in 1973, as revealed in her interview on William Shatner's Raw Nerve, which first aired on January 27, 2009.