Harvey Fierstein
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 ForActing
- Born6 June 1952 (age 73)
- Place of BirthBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Harvey Fierstein
- Known ForActing
- Born6 June 1952 (age 73)
- Place of BirthBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
KNOWN FOR
PHOTOS
CREDITS
Bros
6.662
2022
Disarm Hate
1.0
2020
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
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2020
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
6.5
2019
Animal Crackers
6.287
2017
Hairspray Live!
7.32
2016
The Making of the Wiz Live!
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2015
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
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2015
Russian Broadway Shut Down
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2014
Foodfight!
1.89
2012
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
7.2
2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
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2007
The Year Without a Santa Claus
5.75
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
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2006
Farce of the Penguins
4.123
2006
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
7.2
2005
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2.0
2004
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
7.0
2004
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2.6
2004
Mulan II
6.5
2004
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
9.4
2003
Duplex
6.085
2003
Death to Smoochy
5.907
2002
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
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2002
Rescued from the Closet
6.0
2001
Common Ground
4.684
2000
Playing Mona Lisa
5.7
2000
Jump
1.5
1999
Double Platinum
8.0
1999
The Sissy Duckling
4.667
1999
Safe Men
5.491
1998
Mulan
7.9
1998
White Lies
1.7
1997
Three Little Pigs
5.8
1997
Kull the Conqueror
5.041
1997
Everything Relative
1.625
1996
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
5.9
1996
The Celluloid Closet
7.1
1996
Independence Day
6.898
1996
The Making of 'Independence Day'
5.9
1996
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
4.593
1995
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
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1994
Bullets Over Broadway
7.079
1994
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
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1993
Mrs. Doubtfire
7.192
1993
The Harvest
4.525
1993
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
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1991
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
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1990
Torch Song Trilogy
7.3
1988
MaMa's Pushcart
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1988
Tidy Endings
1.0
1988
Apology
4.25
1986
The Times of Harvey Milk
7.217
1984
Garbo Talks
6.2
1984
The Demon Murder Case
5.9