Harvey Fierstein

Known for ActingBorn 1952-06-06 (age 74)Brooklyn, 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.Read more

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Daddy's Girls

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

BoJack Horseman

How I Met Your Mother

Funny Girl

Newsies

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

Double Platinum

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Kinky Boots: The Musical

The Simpsons

Mulan

Big Mouth

The Good Wife

Trailblazer Honors

The Larry Sanders Show

Hairspray Live!

Family Guy

Cheers

Miami Vice

Murder, She Wrote

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

Nurse Jackie

The Celluloid Closet

Torch Song Trilogy

The Wiz Live!

Mrs. Doubtfire

The Times of Harvey Milk

Bullets Over Broadway

Independence Day

Bros

Hercules

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

Saturday Night Live

Mulan II

Smash

Rescued from the Closet

Animal Crackers

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Duplex

Garbo Talks

Ellen

The Making of 'Independence Day'

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

The Demon Murder Case