Harvey Fierstein
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1952-06-06
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Popularity: 1.0
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 Filmography
The Simpsons
1989
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Family Guy
1999
The Good Wife
2009
Saturday Night Live
1975
How I Met Your Mother
2005
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Cheers
1982
Miami Vice
1984
BoJack Horseman
2014
Big Mouth
2017
Tony Awards
1956
Ellen
1994
Intimate Portrait
1993
Hercules
1998
Nurse Jackie
2009
Mulan
1998
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016
Independence Day
1996
Smash
2012
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
Mulan II
2004
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
Trailblazer Honors
2014
Bros
2022
Duplex
2003
Animal Crackers
2018
Hairspray Live!
2016
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
Safe Men
1998
Death to Smoochy
2002
Kull the Conqueror
1997
Foodfight!
2012
The Celluloid Closet
1996
Apology
1986
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
Daddy's Girls
1994
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996
White Lies
1997
Farce of the Penguins
2006
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
Double Platinum
1999
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
The Harvest
1993
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
Commitment to Life
2023
Garbo Talks
1984
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002
Jump
1999
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
The Sissy Duckling
1999
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996
Common Ground
2000
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
Rescued from the Closet
2001
Torch Song Trilogy
1988
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993
The Demon Murder Case
1983
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
Everything Relative
1996
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004
Tidy Endings
1988
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
MaMa's Pushcart
1988No Photo
Three Little Pigs
1997
Disarm Hate
2020No Photo