Harvey Fierstein

Actor

Born: June 6, 1952 (age 74)
From: 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…

Filmography (59)

Commitment to Life (2023)
Self (archive footage)
Bros (2022)
Louis
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway (2020)
Performer
Disarm Hate (2020)
Narrator
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019)
Self
Animal Crackers (2018)
Esmerelda (voice)
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
Self (archive)
Hairspray Live! (2016)
Edna Turnblad
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire (2015)
Self (Archive)
The Making of the Wiz Live! (2015)
Self
Russian Broadway Shut Down (2014)
Foodfight! (2012)
Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)
Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman (2007)
Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)
Heat Miser
Farce of the Penguins (2006)
Sheila (voice)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)
Host
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005)
Self - Host
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde (2004)
Self
Mulan II (2004)
Yao (voice)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis (2004)
Self
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! (2004)
Self (uncredited)
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004)
Self (voice)
Duplex (2003)
Kenneth
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series (2003)
Self
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary (2002)
Self
Death to Smoochy (2002)
Merv Green
Rescued from the Closet (2001)
Self
One on One with Vito Russo (2001)
Self (archive)
Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
Bennett