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Harvey Fierstein

Acting · Born 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.

Movies with Harvey Fierstein

• Mulan (1998) — Yao (voice)
• Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) — Frank
• Independence Day (1996) — Marty Gilbert
• Mulan II (2004) — Yao (voice)
• Animal Crackers (2018) — Esmerelda (voice)
• Duplex (2003) — Kenneth
• Bros (2022) — Louis
• Death to Smoochy (2002) — Merv Green
• Foodfight! (2012) — Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
• Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995) — Yves DuBois
• Bullets Over Broadway (1994) — Sid Loomis
• Kull the Conqueror (1997) — Juba

TV shows with Harvey Fierstein

• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019) — skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
• Daddy's Girls (1994) — Dennis Sinclair