Acting
Harvey Fierstein
Born 1954-06-06 · Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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
Mulan
Mulan II
Independence Day
Mrs. Doubtfire
Animal Crackers
Bros
Newsies
Bullets Over Broadway
Foodfight!
Duplex
Kull the Conqueror
Death to Smoochy
The Times of Harvey Milk
Hairspray Live!
Kinky Boots: The Musical
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Torch Song Trilogy
The Celluloid Closet
Farce of the Penguins
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Garbo Talks
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
The Wiz Live!
Common Ground
Double Platinum
Safe Men
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
The Sissy Duckling
The Demon Murder Case
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
The Harvest
Funny Girl
Playing Mona Lisa
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Everything Relative
Jump
The Making of 'Independence Day'
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards