Harvey Fierstein

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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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male
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Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

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Cast

CharacterMovie / TV ShowGenresReleaseRating
Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)How I Met Your MotherTV82% · 4,694
Marty GilbertIndependence Day69% · 9,207
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