Harvey Fierstein

Actor

1952-06-06 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.

• Independence Day (1996) — Marty Gilbert
• Mulan (1998) — Yao (voice)
• Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) — Frank
• Mulan II (2004) — Yao (voice)
• Duplex (2003) — Kenneth
• Bullets Over Broadway (1994) — Sid Loomis
• Bros (2022) — Louis
• Death to Smoochy (2002) — Merv Green
• Animal Crackers (2018) — Esmerelda (voice)
• Hairspray Live! (2016) — Edna Turnblad, Teleplay
• Kull the Conqueror (1997) — Juba
• Foodfight! (2012) — Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
• The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) — Narrator (voice)
• Torch Song Trilogy (1988) — Arnold Beckoff, Theatre Play, Screenplay
• Newsies (2017) — Musical
• Kinky Boots: The Musical (2019) — Musical
• Safe Men (1998) — Good Stuff Leo
• Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995) — Yves DuBois
• Farce of the Penguins (2006) — Sheila (voice)
• The Wiz Live! (2015) — Writer
• Garbo Talks (1984) — Bernie Whitlock
• The Harvest (1993) — Bob Lakin
• Common Ground (2000) — Don, Writer
• The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006) — Heat Miser