Known For: American actor and playwright
Category: Actors
Occupation: singer, playwright, voice actor, writer, screenwriter, stage actor, film actor, television actor, actor, theatrical director
Country: United States of America
City: Brooklyn
Date of Birth: Sunday, 06 June 1954
Language English
Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter, known for his distinctive gravelly voice. He is best known for his theater work in Torch Song Trilogy and Hairspray and film roles in Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day, and as the voice of Yao in Mulan and Mulan II. Fierstein won two Tony Awards, Best Actor in a Play and Best Play, for Torch Song Trilogy. He received his third Tony Award, Best Book of a Musical, for the musical La Cage aux Folles and his fourth, the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, a role he revived in its live television event, Hairspray Live! Fierstein also wrote the books for the Tony Award-winning musicals Kinky Boots, Newsies, and Tony Award-nominated, Drama League Award-winner A Catered Affair. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.
| BirthPlace | Brooklyn |
| Education | Q1204714, Q12060065 |
| Awards | Q1445521, Q1784838, Q5305701, Q5305702, Q5305720, Q1131356, Q1723064, Q17985761, Q5935804, Q55316905 |
| Wikipedia | Harvey_Fierstein |
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Harvey Fierstein was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Jacqueline Harriet (née Gilbert), a school librarian, and Irving Fierstein, a handkerchief manufacturer. Fierstein has a brother, Ronald Fierstein. The family belonged to a Conservative Jewish temple. Prior to puberty, Fierstein was a soprano in a professional boys' choir. Fierstein graduated from the High School of Art and Design and received a BFA from the Pratt Institute in 1973.As one of the first openly gay celebrities in the United States, Fierstein helped turn gay and lesbian life into a viable subject for contemporary drama "with no apologies and no climactic suicides". Fierstein has authored op-eds for The New York Times and the PBS series In the Life.
