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.
Known for
ActingBirthday
June 6, 1954Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
60Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Cast credits
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Himself
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Host
Mulan II
Yao (voice)
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Himself
Animal Crackers
Esmerelda (voice)
Duplex
Kenneth
Farce of the Penguins
Sheila (voice)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Self
Hairspray Live!
Edna Turnblad
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Self - Host
Foodfight!
Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
MaMa's Pushcart
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Self
Independence Day
Marty Gilbert
The Times of Harvey Milk
Narrator (voice)
The Harvest
Bob Lakin
Safe Men
Good Stuff Leo
Everything Relative
The Moyle
Bullets Over Broadway
Sid LoomisCrew credits
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