Harvey Fierstein
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Harvey Fierstein

Born 6 June 1952 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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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

The Simpsons
Independence Day
Mulan
Mrs. Doubtfire
How I Met Your Mother
Family Guy
BoJack Horseman
Mulan II
Duplex
Big Mouth
Cheers
The Good Wife
Bros
Disarm Hate
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Animal Crackers
Funny Girl
Hairspray Live!
The Wiz Live!
Russian Broadway Shut Down
Foodfight!
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Farce of the Penguins
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Mulan II
Duplex
Death to Smoochy
Common Ground
Playing Mona Lisa
Jump
Double Platinum
The Sissy Duckling
Mulan
Safe Men
White Lies
Kull the Conqueror
Independence Day
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Everything Relative
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Bullets Over Broadway
The Harvest
Mrs. Doubtfire
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
Torch Song Trilogy
Tidy Endings
Apology
Garbo Talks
The Times of Harvey Milk
The Demon Murder Case
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