
Harvey Fierstein
1 FOLLOWER • 31 CREDITS • JUN 6, 1954 • 70
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.
Known For

Murder, She Wrote

Saturday Night Live

Family Guy

The Good Wife

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Tony Awards

Cheers

How I Met Your Mother

The Simpsons

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
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