{"id":1950007,"date":"2025-08-08T19:50:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1950007"},"modified":"2025-08-08T19:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:50:22","slug":"fran-drescher-wont-run-for-sag-aftra-president-as-candidates-line-up-for-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fran-drescher-wont-run-for-sag-aftra-president-as-candidates-line-up-for-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran Drescher Won\u2019t Run for SAG-AFTRA President As Candidates Line Up for Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fran Drescher<\/a>, who led the actors\u2019 union during its historic 2023 strike, will not be running again for SAG-AFTRA<\/a> president.<\/p>\n

A list of national candidates seeking political office in the union\u2019s 2025 elections that was released to members on Friday confirmed that the actor isn\u2019t seeking a reappointment to the union\u2019s top job after four years in charge.<\/p>\n

Instead, a member of her 2023 political slate and negotiating committee, Sean Astin<\/a>, is running for president. So too is Chuck Slavin<\/a>, a SAG-AFTRA New England Local board member. Ballots will be collected between August 13 and September 12.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> has reached out to a representative for Drescher for comment.<\/p>\n

Drescher, who shot to stardom with her role on The Nanny<\/a> in the \u201890s, surged back into the public consciousness as the actors\u2019 leader during the strike in 2023. Her idiosyncratic approach to union leadership, which included bringing a heart-shaped plushie to negotiations…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fran Drescher, who led the actors\u2019 union during its historic 2023 strike, will not be running again for SAG-AFTRA president. A list of national candidates seeking political office in the union\u2019s 2025 elections that was released to members on Friday confirmed that the actor isn\u2019t seeking a reappointment to the union\u2019s top job after four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1950008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-1950007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Fran-Drescher-Wont-Run-for-SAG-AFTRA-President-As-Candidates-Line.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1950008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}