Harvey Fierstein
- Born
- June 6, 1952 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Actor
- Writer
- soundtrack
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.
Filmography · 22 credits
- 2020Disarm Hate · Actor (Narrator)
- 2019Kinky Boots: The Musical · Writer
- 2019Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles · Self (Self)
- 2017Newsies: The Broadway Musical · Writer
- 2003Duplex · Actor (Kenneth)
- 2002Death to Smoochy · Actor (Merv Green)
- 2000Playing Mona Lisa · Actor (Bennett)
- 1998Mulan · Actor (Yao)
- 1998Safe Men · Actor (Leo)
- 1997Kull: The Conqueror · Actor (Juba)
- 1997White Lies · Actor (Art Hoarder)
- 1996Independence Day · Actor (Marty Gilbert)
- 1996Everything Relative · Actor (The Moyle)
- 1995The Celluloid Closet · Self (Self)
- 1995Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde · Actor (Yves DuBois)
- 1993Mrs. Doubtfire · Actor (Frank Hillard)
- 1993The Harvest · Actor (Bob Lakin)
- 1988Torch Song Trilogy · Writer
- 1988Torch Song Trilogy · Actor (Arnold)
- 1988Mama's Pushcart: Ellen Stewart and 25 Years of La MaMa E.T.C. · Self (Self)
- 1984The Times of Harvey Milk · Actor (Narrator)
- 1984Garbo Talks · Actor (Bernie Whitlock)