Harvey Fierstein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Harvey Fierstein

actor from the United States

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1954

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Profession: screenwriter, actor, writer, singer, playwright, author, stage actor, voice actor, theater director, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Harvey Forbes Fierstein ( FIRE-steen; born June 6, 1954) 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.