

Harvey Fierstein
Acting
June 6, 1952
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
The Filmography


Kinky Boots: The Musical

The Year Without a Santa Claus

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

Duplex

Death to Smoochy

Rescued from the Closet

Playing Mona Lisa

Common Ground

The Sissy Duckling

Double Platinum

Safe Men

Mulan

Kull the Conqueror

White Lies

Everything Relative

Independence Day

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

Bullets Over Broadway
