Fran Drescher

She attended high school with actor Ray Romano. (New York Magazine). Drescher was born and raised in Queens, New York. The most striking performance - in large part non-performance - comes from the late Andrea Feldman as the flat-voiced, freaked-out daughter, a mass of psychotic confusion, infantile and heart-breaking. She also had a role in the movie This Is Spinal Tap as Bobbie Fleckman. She was noted for her exhibitionist nature and heavy dependence on drugs, particularly amphetamines. Drescher's first role in a major motion picture was a bit part in Saturday Night Fever. Feldman’s suicide preceded the release of Heat, in which she had a significant role, by only three weeks.

She wrote about her experiences in the book Cancer Schmancer. Urban legend often mis-attributes the location of Feldman’s suicide to the Hotel Chelsea. Drescher was also diagnosed with uterine cancer, and it was eventually treated to remission. Feldman was holding a can of Coke in one hand and a rosary in the other when she jumped from the fourteenth floor of 51 Fifth Avenue & 12th St, NYC. She was paraphrased as saying in an interview with Larry King that although it was a very negative experience, she found ways to chalk her experience into something positive; she saw her rapist sent to prison. In August of 1972, Andrea summoned several ex-boyfriends, including poet Jim Carroll, to the home of her parents so that they would be witness to her 'final starring role'; her suicide. It took her many years to overcome this obstacle, and it took her even longer to admit this to the press. Feldman was heavily involved in the Exploding Plastic Inevitable shows curated by Andy Warhol at which she would perform her famous whip-dance.

In 1985, robbers ransacked Drescher's apartment and raped her and one of her girlfriends. A native New Yorker, she starred in several of Warhol’s underground movies before committing suicide in 1972. In her autobiography Drescher discusses the fact that this is, in fact, her real voice, and the many voice lessons she has had to take to overcome it for movie auditions (only to have it end up being her trademark). Andrea Feldman (also known as Andrea ‘Whips’ Feldman) (1948- 8 August 1972) was an actor and Warhol superstar. Her voice is a combination of a high nasal pitch and a New York/Jewish accent that many people find unpleasant. Heat (1972). She is most famous for her somewhat autobiographical role as the nanny Fran Fine in The Nanny. Trash (1970).

Fran Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American actress. Four Stars (1967) aka 24 Hour Movie.