Also known as
  • Harvey Forbes Fierstein,
  • Harvey Fierstien
Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6 1952) is an American Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning actor, playwright, and screenwriter. Fierstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jacqueline Harriet (née Gilbert), a school librarian, and Irving Fierstein, a handkerchief manufacturer. He is Jew. The gravelly-voiced actor perhaps is known best for the play and film Torch Song Trilogy, which he wrote and starred in. The 1982 Broadway production won him two Tony Award, for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play, two Drama Desk Award, for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Actor in a Play, and the Theatre World Award, and the film earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination as Best Male Lead. Fierstein also wrote the book for La Cage aux Folles (1983), winning another Tony Award, this time for Best Book of a Musical, and a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Book. Legs Diamond, his 1988 collaboration with Peter Allen, was a critical and commercial failure, closing after... full article at wikipedia

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