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Peter Marc Jacobson (born October 27, 1957; Flushing, Queens, New York) is an American television writer, director and producer, and actor. He is best known as the co-creater of the popular sitcom The Nanny which he created and wrote with his then wife actress Fran Drescher.

Selected career highlights

Producer

• What I Like About You (consulting producer; 18 episodes, 2004-2005), (co-executive producer; 16 episodes, 2005-2006)
• The Nanny (executive producer; 122 episodes, 1993-1999), (co-executive producer; 23 episodes, 1993-1994)

Writer

• What I Like About You (5 episodes, 2004-2006)
• The Nanny (145 episodes, 1993-1999)
• Who's the Boss? (1984; unknown number of episodes)

Actor

• The Nanny (3 episodes, 1994-1999)
• Matlock (2 episodes, 1990-1993)
• Beverly Hills, 90210 (1 episode, 1991)
• Babes (1 episode, 1991)
• Murphy Brown (1 episode, 1990)
• Booker (1 episode, 1990)

Director

• The Nanny Reunion: A Nosh to Remember (2004)

Marriage

Jacobson and Fran Drescher married in 1978, when both were 21 years old. They moved to Los Angeles to launch their careers.

In January 1985, two armed robbers broke into Drescher's and Jacobson's Los Angeles apartment. While one ransacked their home, the other raped Fran at gunpoint. Jacobson was also physically attacked, tied up, and forced to witness the entire ordeal.^[1]

Divorce

Jacobson and Drescher divorced in 1999, after being separated for a number of years; they had no children.

References

External links

• Peter Marc Jacobson at the Internet Movie Database
• Film Reference bio
• New York Times career review