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
8.14
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
5.86
Family Guy
7.391
Intimate Portrait
4.5
Hercules
6.849
Tony Awards
5.917
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.323
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
6
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
5.109
Trailblazer Honors
7.5
Daddy's Girls
0
Miami Vice
7.447
The Simpsons
8
Family Guy
7.391
Saturday Night Live
7
Smash
6.5
BoJack Horseman
8.543
Big Mouth
7.662
Cheers
7.6
Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Ellen
6.2
The Good Wife
7.6
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
7.789
Movies
White Lies
1.667
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2
Bros
6.667
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
6.083
Mulan
7.906
Kull the Conqueror
5.113
Independence Day
6.894
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
5.654
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
7.186
Mulan II
6.506
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
4.7
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
7.2
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
0
Safe Men
5.537
Bullets Over Broadway
7.096
Torch Song Trilogy
7.4
Animal Crackers
6.2
Garbo Talks
6.161
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
0
Death to Smoochy
5.9
The Harvest
4.658
MaMa's Pushcart
0
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
6.5
Apology
4.7
Mrs. Doubtfire
7.195
The Times of Harvey Milk
7.3
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