Harvey Fierstein
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.
Birthday: 06 June 1952
Birth place: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
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The Demon Murder Case
Three Little Pigs
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Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
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Mulan
Kull the Conqueror
Independence Day
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Common Ground
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Playing Mona Lisa
Hairspray Live!
The Making of the Wiz Live!
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Everything Relative
The Celluloid Closet
Mulan II
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Safe Men
Bullets Over Broadway
Torch Song Trilogy
Animal Crackers
Garbo Talks
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Death to Smoochy
The Harvest
MaMa's Pushcart
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
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