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
TV Shows
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Saturday Night Live
BoJack Horseman
The Good Wife
Cheers
Tony Awards
Murder, She Wrote
Miami Vice
Intimate Portrait
Big Mouth
Nurse Jackie
Ellen
The Larry Sanders Show
Hercules
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Smash
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Trailblazer Honors
Daddy's Girls
More Movies
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
Commitment to Life
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Disarm Hate
The Times of Harvey Milk
Playing Mona Lisa
Torch Song Trilogy
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Common Ground
Everything Relative
Russian Broadway Shut Down
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Garbo Talks
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
White Lies
The Demon Murder Case
The Making of 'Independence Day'
Rescued from the Closet
The Harvest
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
One on One with Vito Russo
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Jump
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
The Sissy Duckling
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
MaMa's Pushcart
