Birth Name:
Francine Joy Drescher
Birth Place:
Queens, New York City, USA
Ethnicity:
Jewish-Romanian
Star of the television show The Nanny was born to Jewish Parents of Eastern European Origin. She has a great grandmother from Romania.
Source:
http://home.frognet.net/~ritchie/fdchat5_00.htm
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She’s ROMANIAN. She said it herself!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkoDx9YzvWk
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkoDx9YzvWk
She’s fully Romanian.
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Fran looks like the typical Romanian and she even said that too. Dark hair, dark wide-set eyes, wide face, exotic features.
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I knew she had some romainin in ha cuz da kardasians r romanin and kourtney got da same hairline.kourtney kardasian.
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The Kardashians are not Romanian, they are Armenian, Scottish and Dutch.
http://ethnicelebs.com/kim-kardashian
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Her great-grandmother was Romanian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Drescher
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yeah I’m Italian and No she don’t look like Italian . italians are have similar eyes hers look eastern euro. She just dress like italian women
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Umm what are you talking about? I’ve seen plain white people who were Italian.
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huh Plain white people,…. that where Italian? Italian is not plain white ,.. “plain”white is German, Dutch. English etc …now some Italians maybe look white but that’ s a different story…oyeah and some white people may look Italian.and probably Are or ..mixed.
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Hazel Eyes, I agree my image was that she was an Italian woman from Queens and she does look Italian.
Ethnic
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lol, I mean Italian
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I have always thought she was some how half Itilain
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