"People always say, 'I can't believe that's your real voice', and I say, 'Who could make this up?'", the actress says with a chuckle that is a cross between a dry heave and a snort.
That distinctive set of pipes will always be associated with the character of Fran Fine in The Nanny (1993-1999), the sitcom that turned Drescher into a star. In the comedy, which airs weeknights on Hits channel starting from Friday, she played a Jewish-American woman who ends up as a nanny to British Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield's three children.