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Harvey Fierstein

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Harvey Fierstein

Born Jun 6, 1952 · 74 years87 titles 63 movies · 24 TV
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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.

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Harvey Forbes Fierstein

Born

Jun 6, 1952

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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Roles across career

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83

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Directing

9

Writing

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1956 1 title(s)

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