All Dresched Up!

With plenty of places to go! Twenty years after The Nanny, Fran Drescher is back with a new sitcom and a Broadway show

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Fran Drescher knows how to make you laugh. She did it for six seasons as fish-out-of-water Fran Fine on The Nanny, and now she’s back on TV ready to do it again. On NBC’s Indebted (Feb. 6, 9:30 p.m.) she plays Debbie, a retired mother and grandmother who, along with her husband (Steven Weber), moves in with her daughter and son-in-law to save money. “I like representing my age group in a relationship that’s sexy, madly in love and very tactile,” Drescher, 62, told Us on Jan. 11. Reclining on a chaise beneath the Pasadena sun, she added, “I feel like we’re breaking walls.”

Breaking down walls is something she’s done before. Drescher has been acting steadily for the past 40 years (her first credited role was in 1977’s Saturday Night Fever), and on her signature project,