Person
Harvey Fierstein
- Known for
- Acting
- Birthday
- 1952-06-06
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Gender
- Male
- Popularity
- 2
Also known as: Harvey Forbes Fierstein
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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.
