People
Harvey Fierstein
- Name: Harvey Fierstein
- Birthday: 1954-06-06
- Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
- Popularity: 8.26
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.
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Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Bros as Louis | 2022-09-30 |
| Disarm Hate as Narrator | 2020-03-15 |
| Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles as Himself | 2019-08-23 |
| Animal Crackers as Esmerelda (voice) | 2017-06-23 |
| Hairspray Live! as Edna Turnblad | 2016-12-07 |
| The Making of the Wiz Live! as Self | 2015-11-25 |
| Russian Broadway Shut Down | 2014-01-23 |
| Foodfight! as Fat Cat Burglar (voice) | 2012-06-15 |
| ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway as Self | 2007-04-19 |
| Words and Music by Jerry Herman as Himself | 2007-04-01 |
| The Year Without a Santa Claus as Heat Miser | 2006-12-11 |
| Farce of the Penguins as Sheila (voice) | 2006-12-01 |
| The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Host | 2006-05-02 |
| Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Self - Host | 2005-08-07 |
| Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde as Self | 2004-12-27 |
| Mulan II as Yao (voice) | 2004-11-03 |
| Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis as Self | 2004-05-05 |
| Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me as Self (voice) | 2004-02-24 |
| Duplex as Kenneth | 2003-09-26 |
| The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series as Self | 2003-01-01 |
| Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary as Self | 2002-09-17 |
| Death to Smoochy as Merv Green | 2002-03-29 |
| Rescued from the Closet as Self | 2001-05-29 |
| Playing Mona Lisa as Bennett | 2000-05-01 |
| Common Ground as Don | 2000-01-29 |
| The Sissy Duckling as Elmer (voice) | 1999-09-14 |
| Double Platinum as Gary Millstein | 1999-05-16 |
| Jump as Dish Macense | 1999-04-17 |
| Safe Men as Good Stuff Leo | 1998-08-07 |
| Mulan as Yao (voice) | 1998-06-18 |
| Kull the Conqueror as Juba | 1997-08-29 |
| White Lies as Art Hoarder | 1997-04-01 |
| Three Little Pigs as The Big Bad Wolf (voice) | 1997-01-01 |
| Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas as Easter Bunny | 1996-12-24 |
| Everything Relative as The Moyle | 1996-09-13 |
| The Making of 'Independence Day' as Self | 1996-06-29 |
| Independence Day as Marty Gilbert | 1996-06-25 |
| The Celluloid Closet as Self | 1996-01-30 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde as Yves DuBois | 1995-08-25 |
| Bullets Over Broadway as Sid Loomis | 1994-10-14 |
| Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest | 1994-09-23 |
| Mrs. Doubtfire as Frank | 1993-11-24 |
| The Harvest as Bob Lakin | 1993-11-05 |
| An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends as Self | 1993-01-22 |
| The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? as Self | 1990-08-31 |
| Torch Song Trilogy as Arnold Beckoff | 1988-12-14 |
| Tidy Endings as Arthur | 1988-08-14 |
| MaMa's Pushcart | 1988-01-01 |
| Apology as The derelict | 1986-07-27 |
| Garbo Talks as Bernie Whitlock | 1984-10-12 |
| The Times of Harvey Milk as Narrator (voice) | 1984-10-07 |
| The Demon Murder Case as The Demon (voice) | 1983-03-06 |
