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Harvey Fierstein was born in the year 1954 and he is a <a href="/biography/harvey-fierstein">voice actor</a>, playwright and actor of American nationality. He won a Tony Award for being Best Actor in the Play and it was his play called Torch Song Trilogy. It is about a gay and drag-performer who wanted to have a true family and love. He got a Tony Award for being the Best Actor in the musical and he played as Edna Turnblad in the movie hairspray. He has written a book of musical called La Cage aux Folles. For that he got a Tony Award of Best Book for a musical. He also wrote another Tony Award winning book called Kinky Boots. In 2007, he got inducted into American Theater Hall of Fame.

From his biography he was born in New York, in the city of Brooklyn. He was born from Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and he is a son of Jacqueline who was a school librarian and of Irving who was a manufacturer of handkerchief. He was raised as a conservative Jew but he is a not observing it and he says that he is an atheist.

Harvey Fierstein sometime writes some columns on the gay issues and he was a gay openly at a certain time when few celebrities were agreeing to be gay. He has a career where he was a stand-up comedic and also as a female impersonator. He now lives in Connecticut in the city of Ridgefield.

Harvey Fierstein is known for his gravel voice and he became famous with the role in Torch Song Trilogy. He wrote and also starred in off-Broadway productions.

Harvey Fierstein started to act in the movies and the first movie he acted into was called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_MaMa_Experimental_Theatre_Club">La MaMa</a>, ETC and it was the only play of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol">Andy Warhol</a>. He continued to appear in the movie but he had some other inspiration like being a painter. He enrolled in the Pratt Institute and he got a Bachelor of fine Arts. He was in The Haunted Host three times hosted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Patrick">Robert Patrick</a>. He had also the roles in Bullet Over Broadways of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen">Woody Allen</a> and he was the makeup artist brother of the character of <a href="/biography/robin-williams">Robin William</a> in Mrs. Doubtfire. In Death to Smoochy, he was Merv Green and he was in Independence Day, Kull the Conqueror, Duplex and Garbo Talks. He was the narrator behind The Times of Harvey Milk which was a documentary. For it, he was Emmy Award for News & Documentary. He voiced the voice of Yao in the animated feature of Disney called Mulan. He had a role in Video Game Kingdom hearts II and to the sequel of Mulan II.

For the television, he featured the voice of Karl, who was an assistant of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Simpson">Homer Simpson</a> in the episode of Simpson and Delilah of Simpson. Some of his quotes are available online.

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