Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein

  • Birthday: 1954-06-06
  • Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

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.

Filmography

Disarm Hate

2020

As Narrator

Three Little Pigs

1999

As The Big Bad Wolf (voice)

The Times of Harvey Milk

1984

As Narrator (voice)

Tidy Endings

1988

As Arthur

Torch Song Trilogy

1988

As Arnold Beckoff

The Sissy Duckling

1999

As Elmer (voice)

Duplex

2003

As Kenneth

Mulan

1998

As Yao (voice)

White Lies

1997

As Art Hoarder

Hairspray Live!

2016

As Edna Turnblad

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

1995

As Yves DuBois

The Harvest

1993

As Bob Lakin

Kull the Conqueror

1997

As Juba

The Demon Murder Case

1983

As The Demon (voice)

Garbo Talks

1984

As Bernie Whitlock

Playing Mona Lisa

2000

As Bennett

Death to Smoochy

2002

As Merv Green

Everything Relative

1996

As The Moyle

Mrs. Doubtfire

1993

As Frank

Bullets Over Broadway

1994

As Sid Loomis

Safe Men

1998

As Good Stuff Leo

Double Platinum

1999

As Gary Millstein

Independence Day

1996

As Marty Gilbert

Jump

1999

As Dish Macense

Foodfight!

2012

As Fat Cat Burglar (voice)

Apology

1986

As The derelict

Animal Crackers

2017

As Esmerelda (voice)

Common Ground

2000

As Don

Bros

2022

As Lewis

Mulan II

2004

As Yao (voice)

Farce of the Penguins

2007

As Sheila (voice)

Production

Common Ground

2000

As Writer

Hairspray Live!

2016

As Teleplay

Torch Song Trilogy

1988

As Screenplay

Kinky Boots: The Musical

2019

As Musical

The Wiz Live!

2015

As Writer

Newsies

2017

As Musical

Torch Song Trilogy

1988

As Theatre Play

Tidy Endings

1988

As Theatre Play

Tidy Endings

1988

As Teleplay

The Sissy Duckling

1999

As Writer

Funny Girl

2018

As Musical

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