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Harvey Fierstein
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.
As actor
Commitment to Life
Bros
Disarm Hate
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Animal Crackers
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Hairspray Live!
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Russian Broadway Shut Down
Foodfight!
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Farce of the Penguins
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Mulan II
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Duplex
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Death to Smoochy
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Rescued from the Closet
One on One with Vito Russo
Playing Mona Lisa
Common Ground