Harvey Fierstein
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1952-06-06
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Images
Cast
White Lies
1997
1.00
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
2.00
Bros
2022
6.70
Jump
1999
1.50
The Demon Murder Case
1983
5.90
Three Little Pigs
1997
5.80
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
5.57
Duplex
2003
6.09
Mulan
1998
7.91
Kull the Conqueror
1997
5.13
Independence Day
1996
6.89
Foodfight!
2012
1.90
Farce of the Penguins
2006
4.05
Common Ground
2000
4.90
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
5.80
Hairspray Live!
2016
7.40
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015
0.00
Everything Relative
1996
1.80
The Celluloid Closet
1996
7.20
Mulan II
2004
6.51
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995
4.70
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
0.00
Safe Men
1998
5.50
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
7.09
Torch Song Trilogy
1988
7.36
Animal Crackers
2017
6.20
Garbo Talks
1984
6.17
Death to Smoochy
2002
5.90
The Harvest
1993
4.97
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
0.00
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
6.50
Apology
1986
4.70
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
7.19
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984
7.30
Tidy Endings
1988
1.00
Double Platinum
1999
8.00
The Sissy Duckling
1999
5.10
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996
5.90
Disarm Hate
2020
1.00
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
0.00
Rescued from the Closet
2001
6.00
