Harvey Fierstein
Actor
- Born
- June 6, 1952 (age 74) · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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
Independence Day
July 2, 1996
Mulan
June 18, 1998
Mrs. Doubtfire
November 24, 1993
Mulan II
November 3, 2004
Duplex
September 26, 2003
Bullets Over Broadway
October 14, 1994
Bros
September 30, 2022
Death to Smoochy
March 29, 2002
Animal Crackers
July 21, 2018
Hairspray Live!
December 7, 2016
Kull the Conqueror
August 29, 1997
Foodfight!
June 15, 2012
Acting59
- 2023Commitment to Life as Self (archive footage)
- 2022Bros as Louis
- 2020Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway as Performer
- 2020Disarm Hate as Narrator
- 2019Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles as Self
- 2018Animal Crackers as Esmerelda (voice)
- 2017The Fabulous Allan Carr as Self (archive footage)
- 2016Hairspray Live! as Edna Turnblad
- 2015Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire as Self (Archive)
- 2015