SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher Pays Tribute To Matthew Perry: “We Lost One Of Our Brightest Stars”
deadline.comSAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher took to Instagram to express her condolences over the passing of Friends star Matthew Perry.
While Friends was the big hit over at NBC during the ’90s, over at CBS, Drescher’s sitcom, The Nanny, was the Tiffany network’s comedy pillar.
Perry was a 7x SAG Award nominee, winning for Best Ensemble Comedy Series in 1996 for Friends. “So sad that on the eve of the brightest moon we lost one of our brightest stars” wrote Drescher in a post that had a piano accompaniment of “Auld Lang Syne”. “A brilliant comedian but a sad clown,” added Drescher, “I didn’t know him but as Chandler he will always be a ‘friend’. “May you RIP dear one.
Your talent will continue to make us laugh… health is wealth,” the SAG-AFTRA leader wrote. Perry died at his Los Angeles home on Saturday afternoon; the actor found unconscious by first responders who were unable to revive him.
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