Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1954) is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor.He 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. Fierstein was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.
[on her relationship with Cliff Richard] Because we have stated that we're Christians, they come out with this big word, the celibacy thing, and all this, which makes us sound like a monk and nun going off somewhere. There's plenty of people around that don't agree with having sex outside marriage, I mean we're no different from them.
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BBC Sports Correspondent covering Wimbledon Tennis Championships. [July 2004]
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Chiddingfield, Surrey, England. [July 2008]
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She was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's 2000 Millennium Honors List for her services to sports broadcasting.
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No television footage of her sole Grand Slam win at the 1976 French Open Championships exists. This was due to a strike by camera technicians at the time.
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Was romantically linked to Sir Cliff Richard in the 1980s
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Received death threats telling her she will be hunted down and killed like her friend, BBC presenter Jill Dando. (March 2004)
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