About
Harvey Fierstein
Overview
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
Acting |
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| 2022 | Bros | Actor | Louis | 63 Fair |
| 2020 | Disarm Hate | Actor | Narrator | 58 Average |
| 2019 | The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance | Actor | skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice) | 76 Good |
| 2019 | Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles | Actor | Himself | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Animal Crackers | Actor | Esmerelda (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Hairspray Live! | Actor | Edna Turnblad | 62 Fair |
| 2015 | The Making of the Wiz Live! | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2014 | Russian Broadway Shut Down | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2012 | Foodfight! | Actor | Fat Cat Burglar (voice) | 50 Average |
| 2007 | ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Words and Music by Jerry Herman | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
| 2006 | The Year Without a Santa Claus | Actor | Heat Miser | 58 Average |
| 2006 | Farce of the Penguins | Actor | Sheila (voice) | 57 Average |
| 2006 | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Actor | Host | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards | Actor | Self - Host | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Mulan II | Actor | Yao (voice) | 63 Fair |
| 2004 | Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me | Actor | Self (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2003 | Duplex | Actor | Kenneth | 60 Fair |
| 2003 | The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Death to Smoochy | Actor | Merv Green | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Rescued from the Closet | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2000 | Playing Mona Lisa | Actor | Bennett | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Common Ground | Actor | Don | 58 Average |
| 1999 | The Sissy Duckling | Actor | Elmer (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Double Platinum | Actor | Gary Millstein | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Jump | Actor | Dish Macense | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Safe Men | Actor | Good Stuff Leo | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Mulan | Actor | Yao (voice) | 78 Good |
| 1997 | Kull the Conqueror | Actor | Juba | 57 Average |
| 1997 | White Lies | Actor | Art Hoarder | N/A N/A |
| 1997 | Three Little Pigs | Actor | The Big Bad Wolf (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas | Actor | Easter Bunny | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Everything Relative | Actor | The Moyle | 58 Average |
| 1996 | The Making of 'Independence Day' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Independence Day | Actor | Marty Gilbert | 68 Fair |
| 1996 | The Celluloid Closet | Actor | Self | 61 Fair |
| 1995 | Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde | Actor | Yves DuBois | 57 Average |
| 1995 | The 3 Little Pigs | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1994 | Bullets Over Broadway | Actor | Sid Loomis | 65 Fair |
| 1994 | Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1994 | Daddy's Girls | Actor | Dennis Sinclair | N/A N/A |
| 1993 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Actor | Frank | 71 Good |
| 1993 | The Harvest | Actor | Bob Lakin | 58 Average |
| 1993 | An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1990 | The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1988 | Torch Song Trilogy | Actor | Arnold Beckoff | 61 Fair |
| 1988 | Tidy Endings | Actor | Arthur | 58 Average |
| 1988 | MaMa's Pushcart | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1986 | Apology | Actor | The derelict | 58 Average |
| 1984 | Garbo Talks | Actor | Bernie Whitlock | 59 Average |
| 1984 | The Times of Harvey Milk | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 61 Fair |
| 1983 | The Demon Murder Case | Actor | The Demon (voice) | 59 Average |
| Three Little Pigs | Actor | The Big Bad Wolf (Voice) | N/A N/A |
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Writing |
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| 2019 | Kinky Boots: The Musical | Writing | Musical | 60 Fair |
| 2018 | Funny Girl | Writing | Musical | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Funny Girl | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Newsies | Writing | Musical | 61 Fair |
| 2016 | Hairspray Live! | Writing | Teleplay | 62 Fair |
| 2015 | The Wiz Live! | Writing | Writer | 60 Fair |
| 2000 | Common Ground | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
| 1999 | The Sissy Duckling | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 1988 | Torch Song Trilogy | Writing | Screenplay | 61 Fair |
| 1988 | Torch Song Trilogy | Writing | Theatre Play | 61 Fair |
| 1988 | Tidy Endings | Writing | Theatre Play | 58 Average |
| 1988 | Tidy Endings | Writing | Teleplay | 58 Average |