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Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein

Acting • 1952-06-06 • 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.

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Mulan7.9

Mulan

1998

Duplex6.1

Duplex

2003

Mulan II6.5

Mulan II

2004

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance7.8

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

2019

Mrs. Doubtfire7.2

Mrs. Doubtfire

1993

Independence Day6.9

Independence Day

1996

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