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Harvey Fierstein

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1954-06-06 (69 years old)

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

all 73

Movies 55

self 20

TV Shows 18

Voice 11

Writer 5

Harvey Fierstein

Biography

Filmography

all 73

Movies 55

self 20

TV Shows 18

Voice 11

Writer 5

Narrator 2

Bros (2022)

Disarm Hate (2020)

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019)

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019)

Kinky Boots: The Musical (2019)

Funny Girl (2018)

Big Mouth (2017)

Animal Crackers (2017)

Newsies (2017)

Hairspray Live! (2016)

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (2016)

The Wiz Live! (2015)

The Making of the Wiz Live! (2015)

BoJack Horseman (2014)

Trailblazer Honors (2014)

Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)

Russian Broadway Shut Down (2014)

Foodfight! (2012)

Smash (2012)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)

Farce of the Penguins (2007)

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)

Words and Music by Jerry Herman (2007)

The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)

How I Met Your Mother (2005)

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005)

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde (2004)

Mulan II (2004)

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis (2004)

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004)

Duplex (2003)

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series (2003)

Death to Smoochy (2002)

Rescued from the Closet (2001)

Playing Mona Lisa (2000)

Common Ground (2000)

The Sissy Duckling (1999)

Double Platinum (1999)

Jump (1999)

Family Guy (1999)

Three Little Pigs (1999)

Hercules (1998)

Safe Men (1998)

Mulan (1998)

Kull the Conqueror (1997)

White Lies (1997)

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)

Everything Relative (1996)

The Making of 'Independence Day' (1996)

Independence Day (1996)

The Celluloid Closet (1996)

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995)

Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest (1994)

Daddy's Girls (1994)

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

Intimate Portrait (1993)

The Harvest (1993)

An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends (1993)

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? (1990)

The Simpsons (1989)

Torch Song Trilogy (1988)

Tidy Endings (1988)

MaMa's Pushcart (1988)

Apology (1986)

Garbo Talks (1984)

The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)

Miami Vice (1984)

Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1954-06-06 (69 years old)

Birth Place
Brooklyn, United States of America

Religion
atheism

Citizenships
United States of America

Residences
Ridgefield, United States of America