Personal Info
Known Credits
52
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1954-06-06 (71 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Also Known For
Harvey Fierstein
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 Boot ...
Acting
2022 --
Bros
| Louis
2020 --
Disarm Hate
| Narrator
2019 --
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
| Himself
2017 --
Animal Crackers
| Esmerelda (voice)
2016 --
Hairspray Live!
| Edna Turnblad
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
| Himself
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 --
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
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 --
The Making of 'Independence Day'
| Self
1996 --
Independence Day
| Marty Gilbert
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
|
1993 --
Mrs. Doubtfire
| Frank
1993 --
The Harvest
| Bob Lakin
1993 --
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
| Self
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)