Harvey Fierstein
Acting
Born June 6, 1952 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Simpsons
Family Guy
The Good Wife
Saturday Night Live
How I Met Your Mother
Tony Awards
Murder, She Wrote
Cheers
Miami Vice
BoJack Horseman
Big Mouth
Ellen
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Intimate Portrait
Nurse Jackie
The Larry Sanders Show
Mulan
Hercules
Smash
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Independence Day
Mrs. Doubtfire
Trailblazer Honors
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Mulan II
Duplex
Foodfight!
Bros
Animal Crackers
Death to Smoochy
Bullets Over Broadway
Kull the Conqueror
Daddy's Girls
Farce of the Penguins
Safe Men
The Celluloid Closet
Disarm Hate
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde