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Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein

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 Boot

Born

Jun 06, 1952

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Known For

Acting

Movies

59 acting

12 crew

Popularity

1.2

Known For

Mulan
Mulan
1998 • as Yao (voice)
★ 7.9
Independence Day
Independence Day
1996 • as Marty Gilbert
★ 6.9
Mrs. Doubtfire
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993 • as Frank
★ 7.2
Mulan II
Mulan II
2004 • as Yao (voice)
★ 6.5
Duplex
Duplex
2003 • as Kenneth
★ 6.1
Bullets Over Broadway
Bullets Over Broadway
1994 • as Sid Loomis
★ 7.1
Bros
Bros
2022 • as Louis
★ 6.6
Death to Smoochy
Death to Smoochy
2002 • as Merv Green
★ 5.9
Animal Crackers
Animal Crackers
2018 • as Esmerelda (voice)
★ 6.4
Kull the Conqueror
Kull the Conqueror
1997 • as Juba
★ 5.0
Foodfight!
Foodfight!
2012 • as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
★ 2.0
Hairspray Live!
Hairspray Live!
2016 • as Edna Turnblad
★ 7.4
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995 • as Yves DuBois
★ 4.7
The Celluloid Closet
The Celluloid Closet
1996 • as Self
★ 7.3
Safe Men
Safe Men
1998 • as Good Stuff Leo
★ 5.5
The Fabulous Allan Carr
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 5.0
Farce of the Penguins
Farce of the Penguins
2006 • as Sheila (voice)
★ 4.3
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996 • as Easter Bunny
★ 6.0
The Year Without a Santa Claus
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006 • as Heat Miser
★ 5.8
Garbo Talks
Garbo Talks
1984 • as Bernie Whitlock
★ 6.3
Commitment to Life
Commitment to Life
2023 • as Self (archive footage)
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
★ 7.2
The Times of Harvey Milk
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984 • as Narrator (voice)
★ 7.3
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
★ 7.6
Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy
1988 • as Arnold Beckoff
★ 7.4
The Demon Murder Case
The Demon Murder Case
1983 • as The Demon (voice)
★ 6.1
Double Platinum
Double Platinum
1999 • as Gary Millstein
★ 7.9
Apology
Apology
1986 • as The derelict
★ 5.2
Playing Mona Lisa
Playing Mona Lisa
2000 • as Bennett
★ 5.7
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
★ 6.0
Common Ground
Common Ground
2000 • as Don
★ 5.0
White Lies
White Lies
1997 • as Art Hoarder
★ 3.8
The Making of 'Independence Day'
★ 6.1
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
★ 6.5
The Harvest
The Harvest
1993 • as Bob Lakin
★ 4.7
Jump
Jump
1999 • as Dish Macense
★ 4.3
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015 • as Self (Archive)
Rescued from the Closet
Rescued from the Closet
2001 • as Self
★ 6.5
The Sissy Duckling
The Sissy Duckling
1999 • as Elmer (voice)
★ 5.1
One on One with Vito Russo
One on One with Vito Russo
2001 • as Self (archive)
Everything Relative
Everything Relative
1996 • as The Moyle
★ 2.9
movie
Three Little Pigs
1997 • as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
★ 5.8
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
★ 8.0
Disarm Hate
Disarm Hate
2020 • as Narrator
★ 1.0
Tidy Endings
Tidy Endings
1988 • as Arthur
★ 4.0