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Harvey Fierstein
1 FOLLOWER • 28 CREDITS • JUN 6, 1954 • 70
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.
Known For
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Saturday Night Live
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Family Guy
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Tony Awards
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How I Met Your Mother
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The Simpsons
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Miami Vice
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BoJack Horseman
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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
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Smash
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Big Mouth
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The Celluloid Closet
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Mulan II
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Bros
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Common Ground
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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
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Apology
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Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
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The Making of the Wiz Live!
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Independence Day
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Mrs. Doubtfire
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Daddy's Girls
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Mulan
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Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
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The Sissy Duckling
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Three Little Pigs
Production Credits
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