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.
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TV Series
How I Met Your Mother
8.142
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
5.869
Family Guy
7.4
Intimate Portrait
4.5
Hercules
6.799
Tony Awards
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.3
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
6
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
5.061
Trailblazer Honors
7.5
Family Guy
7.4
Daddy's Girls
0
The Simpsons
8
Miami Vice
7.451
Saturday Night Live
6.96
Smash
6.5
BoJack Horseman
8.546
Big Mouth
7.655
Cheers
7.567
Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Ellen
6.2
The Good Wife
7.598
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
7.78
Movies
White Lies
1
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2
Bros
6.7
Jump
1.5
The Demon Murder Case
5.9
Three Little Pigs
5.8
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
7
The Year Without a Santa Claus
5.571
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
0
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
0
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
0
Duplex
6.086
Mulan
7.9
Kull the Conqueror
5.135
Independence Day
6.893
Foodfight!
1.9
Farce of the Penguins
4.049
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
3
Common Ground
4.9
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
7.2
Playing Mona Lisa
5.8
Hairspray Live!
7.4
The Making of the Wiz Live!
0
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
9.4
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
5.9
Everything Relative
1.8
The Celluloid Closet
7.2
Mulan II
6.508
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
4.7
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
7.2
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
0
Safe Men
5.5
Bullets Over Broadway
7.095
Torch Song Trilogy
7.362
Animal Crackers
6.221
Garbo Talks
6.172
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
0
Death to Smoochy
5.9
The Harvest
4.971
MaMa's Pushcart
0
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
6.5
Apology
4.7
Mrs. Doubtfire
7.19
The Times of Harvey Milk
7.277
Tidy Endings
1
Double Platinum
8
The Sissy Duckling
5.1
The Making of 'Independence Day'
5.9
Disarm Hate
1
Russian Broadway Shut Down
0
Rescued from the Closet
6
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
0
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
0
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
0