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Fran Drescher met Peter Marc Jacobson when she was 15.
Born and raised in Queens, New York, they became best friends in high school and started dating soon after.
Drescher and Jacobson got married in 1978, when they were 21, and both attended and then later dropped out of Queens University.
The couple then moved to California and started writing their own sitcom. Jacobson told AOL, Drescher's unique nasally voice was a "cash cow".
"We’ve made a career out of her voice… I write it and she says it," he shared in 2012.
"Fran and I started, basically, sitting in a basement watching sitcoms to writing sitcoms, and we created The Nanny."
The Nanny aired its first episode in 1993 and went for six seasons, wrapping in 1999.
Jacobson wrote, directed and produced the sitcom, while Drescher, of course, played the lead, Fran Fine.