Harvey Fierstein
Acting
1952-06-06 · 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 · Movie
Bros
2022 · Movie
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020 · Movie
Disarm Hate
2020 · Movie
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019 · Series
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019 · Movie
Kinky Boots: The Musical
2019 · Movie
Funny Girl
2018 · Movie
Animal Crackers
2018 · Movie
Big Mouth
2017 · Series
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017 · Movie
Newsies
2017 · Movie
Hairspray Live!
2016 · Movie
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016 · Series
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015 · Movie
The Wiz Live!
2015 · Movie
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015 · Movie
BoJack Horseman
2014 · Series
Trailblazer Honors
2014 · Series
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014 · Movie
Foodfight!
2012 · Movie
Smash
2012 · Series
The Good Wife
2009 · Series
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Series
Nurse Jackie
2009 · Series
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007 · Movie
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007 · Movie
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006 · Movie
Farce of the Penguins
2006 · Movie
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 · Movie
How I Met Your Mother
2005 · Series
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005 · Movie
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004 · Movie
Mulan II
2004 · Movie
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004 · Movie
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
2004 · Movie
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004 · Movie
Duplex
2003 · Movie
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003 · Movie
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002 · Movie
Death to Smoochy
2002 · Movie
Rescued from the Closet
2001 · Movie
One on One with Vito Russo
2001 · Movie
Playing Mona Lisa
2000 · Movie
Common Ground
2000 · Movie
The Sissy Duckling
1999 · Movie
Double Platinum
1999 · Movie
Jump
1999 · Movie
Family Guy
1999 · Series
Hercules
1998 · Series
Safe Men
1998 · Movie
Mulan
1998 · Movie
Kull the Conqueror
1997 · Movie
White Lies
1997 · Movie
Three Little Pigs
1997 · Movie
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996 · Movie
Everything Relative
1996 · Movie
Independence Day
1996 · Movie
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996 · Movie
The Celluloid Closet
1996 · Movie
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995 · Movie
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · Series
Bullets Over Broadway
1994 · Movie
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994 · Movie
Daddy's Girls
1994 · Series
Ellen
1994 · Series
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993 · Movie
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Series
The Harvest
1993 · Movie
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993 · Movie
The Larry Sanders Show
1992 · Series
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991 · Movie
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990 · Movie
The Simpsons
1989 · Series
Torch Song Trilogy
1988 · Movie
Tidy Endings
1988 · Movie
MaMa's Pushcart
1988 · Movie
Apology
1986 · Movie
Garbo Talks
1984 · Movie
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984 · Movie
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Series
Miami Vice
1984 · Series
The Demon Murder Case
1983 · Movie
Cheers
1982 · Series
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
Tony Awards
1956 · Series