Harvey Fierstein - Movies, Bio & Filmography

Meet Harvey Fierstein

★ Acting🎥 59 films📺 25 TV shows📅 1956–2023🔥 1

Also known as: Harvey Forbes Fierstein

Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

1952-06-06 (age 74)

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.