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Harvey Fierstein
Born 1952-06-06Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Screen work
Movies & roles
Commitment to LifeSelf (archive footage)BrosLouisShoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of BroadwayPerformerDisarm HateNarratorFiddler: A Miracle of MiraclesSelfAnimal CrackersEsmerelda (voice)The Fabulous Allan CarrSelf (archive)Hairspray Live!Edna TurnbladAnother Take on… Mrs. DoubtfireSelf (Archive)The Making of the Wiz Live!SelfRussian Broadway Shut DownRoleFoodfight!Fat Cat Burglar (voice)ShowBusiness: The Road to BroadwaySelfWords and Music by Jerry HermanSelfThe Year Without a Santa ClausHeat MiserFarce of the PenguinsSheila (voice)The Best of The Tony Awards: The PlaysHostBroadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony AwardsSelf - HostHappy Birthday Oscar WildeSelfMulan IIYao (voice)Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie CurtisSelfSesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!Self (uncredited)Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of MeSelf (voice)DuplexKenneth