Harvey Fierstein
Born: 1952-06-06
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
Mulan
1998★ 7.9
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993★ 7.2
Independence Day
1996★ 6.9
Mulan II
2004★ 6.5
Duplex
2003★ 6.1
Tidy Endings
1988★ 1.0
Foodfight!
2012★ 1.9
Safe Men
1998★ 5.5
Common Ground
2000★ 4.7
The Harvest
1993★ 4.5
Everything Relative
1996★ 1.6
Jump
1999★ 1.5
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991★ 0.0
Bros
2022★ 6.7
Animal Crackers
2017★ 6.3
Playing Mona Lisa
2000★ 5.7
Bullets Over Broadway
1994★ 7.1
Kull the Conqueror
1997★ 5.0
Torch Song Trilogy
1988★ 7.3
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007★ 7.2
The Celluloid Closet
1996★ 7.1
Hairspray Live!
2016★ 7.3
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004★ 7.0
Death to Smoochy
2002★ 5.9
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019★ 6.5
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006★ 5.8
Farce of the Penguins
2006★ 4.1
Disarm Hate
2020★ 1.0
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995★ 4.6
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990★ 0.0
The Sissy Duckling
1999★ 4.7
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006★ 0.0
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996★ 5.9
Apology
1986★ 4.3
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984★ 7.2
Garbo Talks
1984★ 6.2
Double Platinum
1999★ 8.0
The Demon Murder Case
1983★ 5.9
MaMa's Pushcart
1988★ 0.0
White Lies
1997★ 1.7
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003★ 9.4
Rescued from the Closet
2001★ 6.0
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004★ 2.0
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996★ 5.9
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014★ 0.0
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004★ 2.6
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005★ 7.2
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015★ 0.0
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993★ 0.0
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994★ 0.0
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020★ 0.0
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007★ 0.0
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015★ 0.0