🎭 Actor
Harvey Fierstein
🎂 Born 6 June 1952 (age 74)📍 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Popularity Score
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Acting Credits
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
Full Filmography(56 films)
YearTitleRating
1998Mulan★ 7.91996Independence Day★ 6.91993Mrs. Doubtfire★ 7.22004Mulan II★ 6.52003Duplex★ 6.12022Bros★ 6.62018Animal Crackers★ 6.32016Hairspray Live!★ 7.31994Bullets Over Broadway★ 7.12012Foodfight!★ 2.01998Safe Men★ 5.51997Kull the Conqueror★ 5.02002Death to Smoochy★ 5.91997White Lies★ 3.82006Farce of the Penguins★ 4.21984Garbo Talks★ 6.32000Common Ground★ 5.01996The Celluloid Closet★ 7.22023Commitment to Life—1993The Harvest★ 4.82017The Fabulous Allan Carr★ 4.51995Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde★ 4.72001Rescued from the Closet★ 6.52006The Year Without a Santa Claus★ 5.82006The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays—1988Torch Song Trilogy★ 7.31996Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas★ 6.02000Playing Mona Lisa★ 6.01999Double Platinum★ 8.01984The Times of Harvey Milk★ 7.31986Apology★ 5.11993An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends—1999The Sissy Duckling★ 5.12003The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series★ 9.41999Jump★ 4.32015Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire—2007ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway★ 7.22004Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde★ 6.02005Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards★ 7.21996The Making of 'Independence Day'★ 6.11988Tidy Endings★ 4.02002Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary—2014Russian Broadway Shut Down—1983The Demon Murder Case★ 6.22015The Making of the Wiz Live!—2019Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles★ 6.52004Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis★ 3.52007Words and Music by Jerry Herman—2004Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me★ 8.01996Everything Relative★ 2.92020Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway—1990The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?—1988MaMa's Pushcart—1994Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest—1991In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story—2020Disarm Hate★ 1.0