Harvey Fierstein
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1954-06-06 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Harvey Fierstein
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.
Acting
(2022)
Bros
as Louis
(2020)
Disarm Hate
as Narrator
(2020)
(2019)
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
as Himself
(2017)
Animal Crackers
as Esmerelda (voice)
(2016)
Hairspray Live!
as Edna Turnblad
(2015)
The Making of the Wiz Live!
as Self
(2014)
(2012)
Foodfight!
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
(2007)
(2007)
(2006)
Farce of the Penguins
as Sheila (voice)
(2006)
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Heat Miser
(2006)
(2005)
(2004)
Mulan II
as Yao (voice)
(2004)
(2004)
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
(2004)
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self
(2003)
Duplex
as Kenneth
(2003)
(2002)
Death to Smoochy
as Merv Green
(2002)
(2001)
Rescued from the Closet
as Self
(2000)
Playing Mona Lisa
as Bennett
(2000)
Common Ground
as Don
(1999)
The Sissy Duckling
as Elmer (voice)
(1999)
Double Platinum
as Gary Millstein
(1999)
Jump
as Dish Macense
(1998)
Mulan
as Yao (voice)
(1998)
Safe Men
as Good Stuff Leo
(1997)
Kull the Conqueror
as Juba
(1997)
White Lies
as Art Hoarder
(1997)
Three Little Pigs
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
(1996)
Independence Day
as Marty Gilbert
(1996)
The Celluloid Closet
as Self
(1996)
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
as Easter Bunny
(1996)
(1996)
Everything Relative
as The Moyle
(1995)
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
as Yves DuBois
(1994)
Bullets Over Broadway
as Sid Loomis
(1994)
(1993)
Mrs. Doubtfire
as Frank
(1993)
The Harvest
as Bob Lakin
(1993)
(1990)
(1988)
Torch Song Trilogy
as Arnold Beckoff
(1988)
Tidy Endings
as Arthur
(1988)
(1986)
Apology
as The derelict
(1984)
The Times of Harvey Milk
as Narrator (voice)
(1984)
Garbo Talks
as Bernie Whitlock
(1983)
The Demon Murder Case
as The Demon (voice)
Crew
(2019)
Kinky Boots: The Musical
Musical, Writer
(2018)
Funny Girl
Musical, Writer
(2017)
Newsies
Musical
(2016)
Hairspray Live!
Teleplay
(2015)
The Wiz Live!
Writer
(2000)
Common Ground
Writer
(1999)
The Sissy Duckling
Writer
(1988)
Torch Song Trilogy
Theatre Play, Screenplay
(1988)
Tidy Endings
Teleplay, Theatre Play