Harvey Fierstein
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 6, 1952
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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
Commitment to Life 2023
as Self (archive footage)
Bros 2022
as Louis
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway 2020
as Performer
Disarm Hate 2020
as Narrator
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles 2019
as Self
Kinky Boots: The Musical 2019
Musical
Funny Girl 2018
Musical, Writer
Animal Crackers 2018
as Esmerelda (voice)
The Fabulous Allan Carr 2017
as Self (archive footage)
Newsies 2017
Musical
Hairspray Live! 2016
as Edna Turnblad, Teleplay
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire 2015
as Self (Archive)
The Wiz Live! 2015
Writer
The Making of the Wiz Live! 2015
as Self
Russian Broadway Shut Down 2014
Actor
Foodfight! 2012
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway 2007
as Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman 2007
as Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus 2006
as Heat Miser
Farce of the Penguins 2006
as Sheila (voice)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays 2006
as Host
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards 2005
as Self - Host
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde 2004
as Self
Mulan II 2004
as Yao (voice)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis 2004
as Self
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! 2004
as Self (uncredited)
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me 2004
as Self (voice)
Duplex 2003
as Kenneth
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series 2003
as Self
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary 2002
as Self
Death to Smoochy 2002
as Merv Green
One on One with Vito Russo 2001
as Self (archive)
Rescued from the Closet 2001
as Self
Playing Mona Lisa 2000
as Bennett
Common Ground 2000
as Don, Writer
The Sissy Duckling 1999
as Elmer (voice), Writer
Double Platinum 1999
as Gary Millstein
Jump 1999
as Dish Macense
Safe Men 1998
as Good Stuff Leo
Mulan 1998
as Yao (voice)
Kull the Conqueror 1997
as Juba
White Lies 1997
as Art Hoarder
- Three Little Pigs
Three Little Pigs 1997
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas 1996
as Easter Bunny
Everything Relative 1996
as The Moyle
Independence Day 1996
as Marty Gilbert
The Making of 'Independence Day' 1996
as Self
The Celluloid Closet 1996
as Self
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde 1995
as Yves DuBois
Bullets Over Broadway 1994
as Sid Loomis
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest 1994
as Self
Mrs. Doubtfire 1993
as Frank
The Harvest 1993
as Bob Lakin
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends 1993
as Self
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story 1991
as Andrew
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? 1990
as Self
Torch Song Trilogy 1988
as Arnold Beckoff, Theatre Play, Screenplay
Tidy Endings 1988
as Arthur, Teleplay, Theatre Play
MaMa's Pushcart 1988
Actor
Apology 1986
as The derelict
Garbo Talks 1984
as Bernie Whitlock
The Times of Harvey Milk 1984
as Narrator (voice)
The Demon Murder Case 1983
as The Demon (voice)
Credits from TMDB.