person

Harvey Fierstein

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1952-06-06

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Harvey Fierstein

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.

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White Lies

Apr 01, 1997

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Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

Dec 27, 2004

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Bros

Sep 30, 2022

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Jump

Apr 17, 1999

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The Demon Murder Case

Mar 06, 1983

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Three Little Pigs

Jan 01, 1997

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Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

Feb 24, 2004

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The Year Without a Santa Claus

Dec 11, 2006

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Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest

Sep 23, 1994

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The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

Aug 31, 1990

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An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends

Jan 22, 1993

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Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

Aug 23, 2019

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Animal Crackers

Jun 23, 2017

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Hairspray Live!

Dec 07, 2016

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The Making of the Wiz Live!

Nov 25, 2015

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Foodfight!

Jun 15, 2012

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ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

Apr 19, 2007

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Words and Music by Jerry Herman

Apr 01, 2007

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Farce of the Penguins

Dec 01, 2006

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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

May 02, 2006

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Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

Aug 07, 2005

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Mulan II

Nov 03, 2004

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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

May 05, 2004

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Duplex

Sep 26, 2003

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The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

Jan 01, 2003

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Death to Smoochy

Mar 29, 2002

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Playing Mona Lisa

May 01, 2000

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Common Ground

Jan 29, 2000

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Safe Men

Aug 07, 1998

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Mulan

Jun 18, 1998

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Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

Dec 24, 1996

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Kull the Conqueror

Aug 29, 1997

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Everything Relative

Sep 13, 1996

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Independence Day

Jun 25, 1996

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72

The Celluloid Closet

Jan 30, 1996

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47

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

Aug 25, 1995

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71

Bullets Over Broadway

Oct 14, 1994

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Mrs. Doubtfire

Nov 24, 1993

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The Harvest

Nov 05, 1993

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Tidy Endings

Aug 14, 1988

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Torch Song Trilogy

Dec 14, 1988

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MaMa's Pushcart

Jan 01, 1988

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Apology

Jul 27, 1986

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Garbo Talks

Oct 12, 1984

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The Times of Harvey Milk

Oct 07, 1984

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Double Platinum

May 16, 1999

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The Sissy Duckling

Sep 14, 1999

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The Making of 'Independence Day'

Jun 29, 1996

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Disarm Hate

Mar 15, 2020

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Russian Broadway Shut Down

Jan 23, 2014

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Rescued from the Closet

May 29, 2001

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Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary

Sep 17, 2002

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Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway

Jul 13, 2020

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In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story

Sep 18, 1991

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81

How I Met Your Mother

Sep 19, 2005

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Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Feb 08, 2016

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Family Guy

Jan 31, 1999

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Intimate Portrait

Nov 14, 1993

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Hercules

Aug 31, 1998

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Tony Awards

Apr 01, 1956

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Late Night with Seth Meyers

Feb 25, 2014

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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Mar 12, 1995

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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Jul 16, 2009

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Trailblazer Honors

Jun 27, 2014

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Family Guy

Jan 31, 1999

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Daddy's Girls

Sep 21, 1994

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The Simpsons

Dec 17, 1989

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Miami Vice

Sep 16, 1984

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Saturday Night Live

Oct 11, 1975

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65

Smash

Feb 06, 2012

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85

BoJack Horseman

Aug 22, 2014

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76

Big Mouth

Sep 29, 2017

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75

Cheers

Sep 30, 1982

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75

Murder, She Wrote

Sep 30, 1984

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Ellen

Mar 29, 1994

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The Good Wife

Sep 22, 2009

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77

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Aug 30, 2019