
Harvey Fierstein
Birthday: 1954-06-06 | Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.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
Acting
Role
as Performer
as Himself
as Edna Turnblad
as Self
as Heat Miser
as Self - Host
as Self
as Self (voice)
as Kenneth
as Merv Green
as Self
as Bennett
as Elmer (voice)
as Gary Millstein
as Good Stuff Leo
as Yao (voice)
as Juba
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
as Marty Gilbert
as The Moyle