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Harvey Fierstein

06 Jun, 1954 in 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.

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Bros
68% (2022)
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Jump
15% (1999)
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Safe Men
56% (1998)
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MaMa's Pushcart
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Duplex
61% (2003)
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Disarm Hate
10% (2020)