Actor info
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Name :
Harvey Fierstein
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Born :
June 6, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA (74 years old)
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Known for :
Acting
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Gender :
Male
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Film career :
58 films (1983–2023)
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Also known as :
Harvey Forbes Fierstein
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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.
Notable films
- Mulan II (2004) as Yao (voice)
- Duplex (2003) as Kenneth
- Mulan (1998) as Yao (voice)
- Independence Day (1996) as Marty Gilbert
- Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) as Frank
