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