Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He also wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning "Kinky Boots". He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.
Harvey Fierstein
Actor · Born 6 Jun 1952, Brooklyn
Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best…
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Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He also wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning "Kinky Boots". He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.
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- Born6 June 1952 (age 74)Jestha 24, 2009 BS
- BirthplaceBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Known forActing
- GenderMale
- Also known asHarvey Forbes Fierstein
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Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Disarm Hate
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Animal Crackers
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Hairspray Live!
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Russian Broadway Shut Down
Foodfight!
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Farce of the Penguins
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Mulan II
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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Big Mouth
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
BoJack Horseman
Trailblazer Honors
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Smash
The Good Wife
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Nurse Jackie
How I Met Your Mother
Family Guy
Hercules
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Daddy's Girls
Ellen
Intimate Portrait
The Larry Sanders Show
The Simpsons
Murder, She Wrote
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The Simpsons (1989)·Independence Day (1996)·Mulan (1998)·Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)·How I Met Your Mother (2005)·Family Guy (1999)