Name
Harvey Fierstein
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1952-06-06 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Independence Day
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Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the wor...
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Mrs. Doubtfire
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Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is cru...
Relase Date : 24 Nov, 1993
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Bullets Over Broadway
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After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valen...
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Movies
Tv Shows
- 1997 White Lies as Art Hoarder
- 2004 Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde as Self
- 2022 Bros as Louis
- 1999 Jump as Dish Macense
- 1983 The Demon Murder Case as The Demon (voice)
- 1997 Three Little Pigs as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
- 2004 Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me as Self (voice)
- 2006 The Year Without a Santa Claus as Heat Miser
- 1994 Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest as Self
- 1990 The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? as Self
- 1993 An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends as Self
- 2003 Duplex as Kenneth
- 1998 Mulan as Yao (voice)
- 1997 Kull the Conqueror as Juba
- 1996 Independence Day as Marty Gilbert
- 2012 Foodfight! as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
- 2006 Farce of the Penguins as Sheila (voice)
- 2004 Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis as Self
- 2000 Common Ground as Don
- 2005 Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Self - Host
- 2000 Playing Mona Lisa as Bennett
- 2016 Hairspray Live! as Edna Turnblad
- 2015 The Making of the Wiz Live! as Self
- 2003 The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series as Self
- 1996 Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas as Easter Bunny
- 1996 Everything Relative as The Moyle
- 1996 The Celluloid Closet as Self
- 2004 Mulan II as Yao (voice)
- 1995 Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde as Yves DuBois
- 2007 ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway as Self
- 2007 Words and Music by Jerry Herman as Self
- 1998 Safe Men as Good Stuff Leo
- 1994 Bullets Over Broadway as Sid Loomis
- 1988 Torch Song Trilogy as Arnold Beckoff
- 2018 Animal Crackers as Esmerelda (voice)
- 1984 Garbo Talks as Bernie Whitlock
- 2006 The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Host
- 2002 Death to Smoochy as Merv Green
- 1993 The Harvest as Bob Lakin
- 1988 MaMa's Pushcart
- 2019 Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles as Self
- 1986 Apology as The derelict
- 1993 Mrs. Doubtfire as Frank
- 1984 The Times of Harvey Milk as Narrator (voice)
- 1988 Tidy Endings as Arthur
- 1999 Double Platinum as Gary Millstein
- 1999 The Sissy Duckling as Elmer (voice)
- 1996 The Making of 'Independence Day' as Self
- 2020 Disarm Hate as Narrator
- 2014 Russian Broadway Shut Down
- 2001 Rescued from the Closet as Self
- 2002 Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary as Self
- 2020 Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway as Performer
- 1991 In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story as Andrew
- 2015 Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire as Self (Archive)
- 2023 Commitment to Life as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 The Fabulous Allan Carr as Self (archive footage)
- 2001 One on One with Vito Russo as Self (archive)
- 2004 Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! as Self (uncredited)
- 2005 How I Met Your Mother ( 1 episode ) as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
- 2016 Full Frontal with Samantha Bee ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1999 Family Guy ( 1 episode ) as Buster Keaton (voice)
- 1993 Intimate Portrait ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1998 Hercules ( 1 episode ) as Argus Panoptes (voice)
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1995 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2014 Trailblazer Honors ( 1 episode ) as Self - Honoree
- 1994 Daddy's Girls ( 13 episodes ) as Dennis Sinclair
- 1984 Miami Vice ( 1 episode ) as Benedict
- 1989 The Simpsons ( 1 episode ) as Karl (voice)
- 1999 Family Guy ( 1 episode ) as Tracy (voice)
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 2012 Smash ( 1 episode ) as Harvey Fierstein
- 2014 BoJack Horseman ( 1 episode ) as Harvey Fierstein (voice)
- 2017 Big Mouth ( 1 episode ) as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
- 1982 Cheers ( 1 episode ) as Mark Newberger
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Stan Hatter
- 1994 Ellen ( 1 episode ) as Harvey Fierstein
- 2009 The Good Wife ( 1 episode ) as Judge Francis Flamm
- 2019 The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance ( 7 episodes ) as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
- 1992 The Larry Sanders Show ( 1 episode ) as Harvey Fierstein
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Winner
- 2009 Nurse Jackie ( 1 episode ) as John Decker
