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Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein

Birthday: 1954-06-06 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2019
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

as    Himself

2002
Death to Smoochy

as    Merv Green

2000
Playing Mona Lisa

as    Bennett

1998
Safe Men

as    Good Stuff Leo

1998
Mulan

as    Yao (voice)

1996
Independence Day

as    Marty Gilbert

1996
Everything Relative

as    The Moyle

1995
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

as    Yves DuBois

1994
Daddy's Girls

as    Dennis Sinclair

1993
Mrs. Doubtfire

as    Frank

1988
Torch Song Trilogy

as    Arnold Beckoff

1984
The Times of Harvey Milk

as    Narrator (voice)