Harvey Fierstein
41 movies · 17 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 6, 1952 (age 74)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Harvey Forbes 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 Boots". He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.
Known for
Harvey Fierstein: movies and TV shows
Acting (54)
- 2022 Bros
as Louis
- 2020 Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
as Performer
- 2020 Disarm Hate
as Narrator
- 2019
- 2018 Animal Crackers
as Esmerelda (voice)
- 2017
- 2016 Hairspray Live!
as Edna Turnblad
- 2014
- 2014
- 2012 Foodfight!
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
- 2012
- 2009
- 2009
- 2006 The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Heat Miser
- 2006 Farce of the Penguins
as Sheila (voice)
- 2005
- 2004 Mulan II
as Yao (voice)
- 2003 Duplex
as Kenneth
- 2002 Death to Smoochy
as Merv Green
- 2000 Playing Mona Lisa
as Bennett
- 2000 Common Ground
as Don
- 1999 The Sissy Duckling
as Elmer (voice)
- 1999 Double Platinum
as Gary Millstein
- 1999 Jump
as Dish Macense
- 1999
- 1998
- 1998 Safe Men
as Good Stuff Leo
- 1998 Mulan
as Yao (voice)
- 1997 Kull the Conqueror
as Juba
- 1997 White Lies
as Art Hoarder
- 1997 Three Little Pigs
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
- 1996 Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
as Easter Bunny
- 1996 Everything Relative
as The Moyle
- 1996 Independence Day
as Marty Gilbert
- 1995 Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
as Yves DuBois
- 1995
- 1994 Bullets Over Broadway
as Sid Loomis
- 1994
- 1994
- 1993 Mrs. Doubtfire
as Frank
- 1993 The Harvest
as Bob Lakin
- 1992
- 1991 In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
as Andrew
- 1989
- 1988 Torch Song Trilogy
as Arnold Beckoff
- 1988 Tidy Endings
as Arthur
- 1988
- 1986 Apology
as The derelict
- 1984 Garbo Talks
as Bernie Whitlock
- 1984 The Times of Harvey Milk
as Narrator (voice)
- 1984
- 1984
- 1983 The Demon Murder Case
as The Demon (voice)
- 1982
Behind the camera (9)
- 2019 Kinky Boots: The Musical
Musical
- 2018 Funny Girl
Musical, Writer
- 2017 Newsies
Musical
- 2016 Hairspray Live!
Teleplay
- 2015 The Wiz Live!
Writer
- 2000 Common Ground
Writer
- 1999 The Sissy Duckling
Writer
- 1988 Torch Song Trilogy
Theatre Play, Screenplay
- 1988 Tidy Endings
Teleplay, Theatre Play
Talk shows and appearances (29)
- 2023
- 2019
- 2017
- 2016 Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
1 episode
- 2015
- 2015
- 2014 Trailblazer Honors
1 episode
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
1 episode
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
3 episodes
- 2007
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- 2004
- 2004
- 2004
- 2003
- 2002
- 2001
- 2001
- 1996
- 1996
- 1994
- 1993 Intimate Portrait
1 episode
- 1993
- 1990
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
1 episode
- 1956 Tony Awards
1 episode