Acting
Harvey Fierstein
Born 1952
Known for Mulan, Independence Day, Mrs. Doubtfire.
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Born06/06/1952
Age74 years old
BirthplaceBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
DepartmentActing
Also known asHarvey Forbes 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.
Movie Credits
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
The Sissy Duckling (1999)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Duplex (2003)
Mulan II (2004)
Mulan (1998)
White Lies (1997)
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019)
Hairspray Live! (2016)
Kull the Conqueror (1997)
The Harvest (1993)
The Demon Murder Case (1983)
The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)
Garbo Talks (1984)
Death to Smoochy (2002)
Safe Men (1998)
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Double Platinum (1999)
Independence Day (1996)
Foodfight! (2012)
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)
Apology (1986)
Animal Crackers (2017)
Bros (2022)
The Celluloid Closet (1996)
