Harvey Fierstein

(1954-)

American actor and playwright

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Harvey Forbes Fierstein ( FIRE-steen; born June 6, 1954) is an American actor, playwright, singer and voice actor. He is best known for his roles as Frank Hillard in Mrs. Doubtfire and the voice of Yao in Mulan and Mulan II. 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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Born	Harvey Forbes Fierstein 6 June 1954 (age 71) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Zodiac	Gemini
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