Harvey Fierstein

Known for: Acting
Born: June 6, 1952, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Movies: 64

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.

Best-Known Movies

6.9

Independence Day

1996

7.9

Mulan

1998

7.2

Mrs. Doubtfire

1993

6.5

Mulan II

2004

6.1

Duplex

2003

7.1

Bullets Over Broadway

1994

6.6

Bros

2022

5.9

Death to Smoochy

2002

6.4

Animal Crackers

2018

7.4

Hairspray Live!

2016

Filmography

2023	Commitment to Life	Self (archive footage)
2022	Bros	Louis
2020	Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway	Performer
2020	Disarm Hate	Narrator
2019	Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles	Self
2018	Animal Crackers	Esmerelda (voice)
2017	The Fabulous Allan Carr	Self (archive footage)
2016	Hairspray Live!	Edna Turnblad
2015	Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire	Self (Archive)
2015	The Making of the Wiz Live!	Self
2014	Russian Broadway Shut Down
2012	Foodfight!	Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
2007	ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway	Self
2007	Words and Music by Jerry Herman	Self
2006	The Year Without a Santa Claus	Heat Miser
2006	Farce of the Penguins	Sheila (voice)
2006	The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays	Host
2005	Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards	Self - Host
2004	Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde	Self
2004	Mulan II	Yao (voice)
2004	Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis	Self
2004	Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!	Self (uncredited)
2004	Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me	Self (voice)
2003	Duplex	Kenneth
2003	The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series	Self
2002	Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary	Self
2002	Death to Smoochy	Merv Green
2001	Rescued from the Closet	Self
2001	One on One with Vito Russo	Self (archive)
2000	Playing Mona Lisa	Bennett
2000	Common Ground	Don
1999	The Sissy Duckling	Elmer (voice)
1999	Double Platinum	Gary Millstein
1999	Jump	Dish Macense
1998	Safe Men	Good Stuff Leo
1998	Mulan	Yao (voice)
1997	Kull the Conqueror	Juba
1997	White Lies	Art Hoarder
1997	Three Little Pigs	The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
1996	Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas	Easter Bunny
1996	Everything Relative	The Moyle
1996	Independence Day	Marty Gilbert
1996	The Making of 'Independence Day'	Self
1996	The Celluloid Closet	Self
1995	Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde	Yves DuBois
1994	Bullets Over Broadway	Sid Loomis
1994	Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest	Self
1993	Mrs. Doubtfire	Frank
1993	The Harvest	Bob Lakin
1993	An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends	Self
1991	In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story	Andrew
1990	The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?	Self
1988	Torch Song Trilogy	Arnold Beckoff
1988	Tidy Endings	Arthur
1988	MaMa's Pushcart
1986	Apology	The derelict
1984	Garbo Talks	Bernie Whitlock
1984	The Times of Harvey Milk	Narrator (voice)
1983	The Demon Murder Case	The Demon (voice)

Directing, Writing & Producing

2018	Funny Girl	Writer
2015	The Wiz Live!	Writer
2000	Common Ground	Writer
1999	The Sissy Duckling	Writer
1988	Torch Song Trilogy	Screenplay

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