Harvey Fierstein

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

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.

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

About

Acting, Male

Birthday

06 June 1952, 73 years old

Known For

Mulan

Independence Day

Mrs. Doubtfire

Mulan II

Duplex

Bullets Over Broadway

Bros

Death to Smoochy

Animal Crackers

Filmography

Production

Writing

Creator

Bros

Louis

2022

Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway

Performer

2020

Disarm Hate

Narrator

2020

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

Self

2019

Animal Crackers

Esmerelda (voice)

2017

Hairspray Live!

Edna Turnblad

2016

Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire

Self (Archive)

2015

The Making of the Wiz Live!

Self

2015

Russian Broadway Shut Down

2014

Foodfight!

Fat Cat Burglar (voice)

2012

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

Self

2007

Words and Music by Jerry Herman

Self

2007

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

2006

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

Self - Host

2005

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)

2004

Duplex

Kenneth

2003

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

Self

2003

Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary

Self

2002

Death to Smoochy

Merv Green

2002

Rescued from the Closet

Self

2001

Playing Mona Lisa

Bennett

2000

Common Ground

Don

2000

The Sissy Duckling

Elmer (voice)

1999

Double Platinum

Gary Millstein

1999

Jump

Dish Macense

1999

Safe Men

Good Stuff Leo

1998

Mulan

Yao (voice)

1998

Kull the Conqueror

Juba

1997

White Lies

Art Hoarder

1997

Three Little Pigs

The Big Bad Wolf (voice)

1997

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

1996

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

Yves DuBois

1995

Bullets Over Broadway

Sid Loomis

1994

Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest

1994

Mrs. Doubtfire

Frank

1993

The Harvest

Bob Lakin

1993

An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends

Self

1993

In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story

Andrew

1991

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

Self

1990

Torch Song Trilogy

Arnold Beckoff

1988

Tidy Endings

Arthur

1988

MaMa's Pushcart

1988

Apology

The derelict

1986

Garbo Talks

Bernie Whitlock

1984

The Times of Harvey Milk

Narrator (voice)

1984

The Demon Murder Case

The Demon (voice)

1983