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Harvey Fierstein
Actor

Harvey Fierstein

5 Movies
5 Credits
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Known For Acting
Known Credits 5
Birthday June 6, 1952 (74 years old)
Place of Birth Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As Harvey Forbes Fierstein
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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.

Filmography (81)

Commitment to Life 2023
Bros 2022
Disarm Hate 2020
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway 2020
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles 2019
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance 2019
Animal Crackers 2018
The Fabulous Allan Carr 2017
Big Mouth 2017
Hairspray Live! 2016
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee 2016
The Making of the Wiz Live! 2015
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire 2015
Russian Broadway Shut Down 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers 2014
Trailblazer Honors 2014
BoJack Horseman 2014
Foodfight! 2012
Smash 2012
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen 2009
The Good Wife 2009
Nurse Jackie 2009
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway 2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman 2007
The Year Without a Santa Claus 2006
Farce of the Penguins 2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays 2006
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards 2005
How I Met Your Mother 2005
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde 2004
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me 2004
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis 2004
Mulan II 2004
Duplex 2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series 2003
Death to Smoochy 2002
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary 2002
Rescued from the Closet 2001
Common Ground 2000
Playing Mona Lisa 2000
Jump 1999
Double Platinum 1999
The Sissy Duckling 1999
Family Guy 1999
Mulan 1998
Safe Men 1998
Hercules 1998
White Lies 1997
Three Little Pigs 1997
Kull the Conqueror 1997
Independence Day 1996
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas 1996
Everything Relative 1996
The Celluloid Closet 1996
The Making of 'Independence Day' 1996
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde 1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child 1995
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest 1994
Bullets Over Broadway 1994
Daddy's Girls 1994
Ellen 1994
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends 1993
The Harvest 1993
Mrs. Doubtfire 1993
Intimate Portrait 1993
The Larry Sanders Show 1992
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story 1991
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? 1990
The Simpsons 1989
Torch Song Trilogy 1988
MaMa's Pushcart 1988
Tidy Endings 1988
Apology 1986
Garbo Talks 1984
The Times of Harvey Milk 1984
Miami Vice 1984
Murder, She Wrote 1984
The Demon Murder Case 1983
Cheers 1982
Saturday Night Live 1975
Tony Awards 1956
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