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.
Known For
Art Hoarder
White Lies
Self
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Louis
Bros
Dish Macense
Jump
The Demon (voice)
The Demon Murder Case
The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
Three Little Pigs
Self (voice)
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Heat Miser
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Self
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
Self
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Self
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
Kenneth
Duplex
Yao (voice)
Mulan
Juba
Kull the Conqueror
Marty Gilbert
Independence Day
Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Foodfight!
Sheila (voz)
Farce of the Penguins
Self
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Don
Common Ground
Self - Host
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Bennett
Playing Mona Lisa
Edna Turnblad
Hairspray Live!
Self
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Self
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Easter Bunny
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
The Moyle
Everything Relative
Self
The Celluloid Closet
Yao (voice)
Mulan II
Yves DuBois
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Self
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Good Stuff Leo
Safe Men
Sid Loomis
Bullets Over Broadway
Arnold Beckoff
Torch Song Trilogy
Esmerelda (voice)
Animal Crackers
Bernie Whitlock
Garbo Talks
Host
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Merv Green
Death to Smoochy
Bob Lakin
The Harvest
MaMa's Pushcart
Self
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
The derelict
Apology
Frank
Mrs. Doubtfire
Narrator (voice)
The Times of Harvey Milk
Arthur
Tidy Endings
Gary Millstein
Double Platinum
Elmer (voice)
The Sissy Duckling
Self
The Making of 'Independence Day'
Narrator
Disarm Hate
Russian Broadway Shut Down
Self
Rescued from the Closet
Self
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Performer
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Andrew
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
Self (Archive)
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
55
Gender
Male
Birthday
1952-06-06
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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