Harvey Fierstein
Birthday: 1952-06-06
Place of Birth: 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.
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White Lies
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Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
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Jump
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The Demon Murder Case
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Three Little Pigs
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Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
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The Year Without a Santa Claus
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Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
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The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
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An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
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Death to Smoochy
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The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
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Foodfight!
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Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
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Mulan II
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Safe Men
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Everything Relative
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Bullets Over Broadway
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Torch Song Trilogy
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MaMa's Pushcart
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ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
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Words and Music by Jerry Herman
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Farce of the Penguins
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Common Ground
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Animal Crackers
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Mulan
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Hairspray Live!
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Mrs. Doubtfire
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The Times of Harvey Milk
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Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
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The Celluloid Closet
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Duplex
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Independence Day
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Tidy Endings
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Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
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The Harvest
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Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
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Apology
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Garbo Talks
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Double Platinum
The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only...
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The Sissy Duckling
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The Making of 'Independence Day'
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Disarm Hate
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Russian Broadway Shut Down
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Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
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Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
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In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
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Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
"A 2015 pilot I made for a BBC webseries, rejected after I got into an argument with the commissione...
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