Harvey Fierstein
Born June 06, 1952 (Age: 73)
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Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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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Filmography
Bros
2022
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as Louis
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Age: 70
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020
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as Performer
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Age: 68
Animal Crackers
2018
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as Esmerelda (voice)
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Age: 66
Foodfight!
2012
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as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
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Age: 60
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
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as Self
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Age: 54
Duplex
2003
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as Kenneth
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Age: 51
No Image
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002
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as Self
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Age: 50
Death to Smoochy
2002
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as Merv Green
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Age: 49
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
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as Bennett
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Age: 47
Common Ground
2000
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as Don
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Age: 47
Safe Men
1998
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as Good Stuff Leo
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Age: 46
Mulan
1998
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as Yao (voice)
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Age: 46
Kull the Conqueror
1997
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as Juba
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Age: 45
Independence Day
1996
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as Marty Gilbert
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Age: 44
The Celluloid Closet
1996
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as Self
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Age: 43
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
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as Sid Loomis
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Age: 42
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994
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as Self
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Age: 42
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
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as Frank
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Age: 41
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991
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as Andrew
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Age: 39
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
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as Self
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Age: 38
Torch Song Trilogy
1988
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as Arnold Beckoff
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Age: 36