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