1998Winner
Best Performance
Mulan
Harvey Fierstein
Actor · Writer
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
June 6, 1952
Biography
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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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1993Nominee
Best Performance
Mrs. Doubtfire
1996Nominee
Best Performance
Independence Day
Career Highlights
2004Highlight
Best Performance
Mulan II
2003Highlight
Best Performance
Duplex
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Mulan
Mrs. Doubtfire
Independence Day