Harvey Fierstein
Born June 6, 1952 · 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.
Movies
Mulan
Mrs. Doubtfire
Independence Day
Mulan II
Bros
Duplex
Animal Crackers
Foodfight!
Death to Smoochy
Bullets Over Broadway
Kull the Conqueror
Safe Men
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Commitment to Life
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Torch Song Trilogy
Disarm Hate
Everything Relative
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
TV Shows
Saturday Night Live
How I Met Your Mother
The Good Wife
Murder, She Wrote
BoJack Horseman
Cheers
Miami Vice
Tony Awards
Big Mouth
The Larry Sanders Show
Ellen
Nurse Jackie
Intimate Portrait
Smash
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Hercules
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Trailblazer Honors
Daddy's Girls
More Movies
Hairspray Live!
The Year Without a Santa Claus
The Celluloid Closet
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Garbo Talks
Farce of the Penguins
The Making of 'Independence Day'
The Fabulous Allan Carr
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
The Times of Harvey Milk
Russian Broadway Shut Down
Rescued from the Closet
White Lies
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
Playing Mona Lisa
The Sissy Duckling
The Harvest
Double Platinum
Common Ground
Apology
The Demon Murder Case
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
The Making of the Wiz Live!
MaMa's Pushcart
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Jump
One on One with Vito Russo
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Tidy Endings
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
