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Harvey Fierstein
1 FOLLOWER • 31 CREDITS • JUN 6, 1954 • 70
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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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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
Murder, She Wrote
Saturday Night Live
The Good Wife
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Tony Awards
Cheers
How I Met Your Mother
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Miami Vice
BoJack Horseman
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Smash
Big Mouth
The Celluloid Closet
Mulan II
Bros
Common Ground
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Apology
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Independence Day
Mrs. Doubtfire
Daddy's Girls
Mulan
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
The Sissy Duckling
Three Little Pigs
Production Credits
Common Ground
The Sissy Duckling
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