Harvey Fierstein
Acting
- Born:
- 1952-06-06
- Place of birth:
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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
Filmography
Commitment to Life
Bros
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Disarm Hate
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Animal Crackers
Big Mouth
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Hairspray Live!
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
The Making of the Wiz Live!
BoJack Horseman
Trailblazer Honors
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Russian Broadway Shut Down
Foodfight!
Smash
The Good Wife
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Nurse Jackie
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Farce of the Penguins
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
How I Met Your Mother
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Mulan II
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Duplex
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Death to Smoochy
Rescued from the Closet
One on One with Vito Russo
Playing Mona Lisa
Common Ground
The Sissy Duckling
Double Platinum
Jump
Family Guy
Hercules
Safe Men
Mulan
Kull the Conqueror
White Lies
Three Little Pigs
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Everything Relative
Independence Day
The Making of 'Independence Day'
The Celluloid Closet
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Bullets Over Broadway
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
Daddy's Girls
Ellen
Mrs. Doubtfire
Intimate Portrait
The Harvest
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
The Larry Sanders Show
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
The Simpsons
Torch Song Trilogy
Tidy Endings
MaMa's Pushcart
Apology
Garbo Talks
The Times of Harvey Milk
Murder, She Wrote
Miami Vice
The Demon Murder Case
Cheers
Saturday Night Live
Tony Awards