Drescher was born in Flushing, Queens, New York City, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family of Eastern European origin. She grew up in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens with her parents Sylvia and Morty Drescher and was a studious girl who was popular in school. Drescher attended Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens, where she met her future husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, eventually marrying him in 1978, at Read more...

Drescher continued to play small but memorable roles in movies, until she and her husband finally created her own television show, The Nanny in 1993. She was visiting her friend, model Twiggy, in England and came up with the plotline. The show aired on CBS from 1993 to 1999, becoming an instant success, and Drescher became an instant star. In this sitcom, she played a charming and bubbly woman named Read more...

Drescher married her highschool sweetheart, Peter Marc Jacobson, in 1978. Jacobson was Drescher's constant supporter in her show-business career, and he wrote, directed, and produced her siganture television series, The Nanny.

In January 1985, robbers ransacked Drescher's and Jacobson's Los Angeles apartment and raped her and a friend at gunpoint. It took her many years to overcome this ordeal, Read more...