Harvey Fierstein
ActingHarvey 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
Filmography — Acting
Mulan
Yao (voice)
Independence Day
Marty Gilbert
Mrs. Doubtfire
Frank
Mulan II
Yao (voice)
Bros
Louis
Duplex
Kenneth
Animal Crackers
Esmerelda (voice)
Kull the Conqueror
Juba
Foodfight!
Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Death to Smoochy
Merv Green
Bullets Over Broadway
Sid Loomis
The Celluloid Closet
Self
Safe Men
Good Stuff Leo
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Yves DuBois
Hairspray Live!
Edna Turnblad
Jump
Dish Macense
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Host
White Lies
Art Hoarder
The Times of Harvey Milk
Narrator (voice)
Torch Song Trilogy
Arnold Beckoff
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self
Apology
The derelict
Farce of the Penguins
Sheila (voz)
Common Ground
Don
Double Platinum
Gary Millstein
Garbo Talks
Bernie Whitlock
The Demon Murder Case
The Demon (voice)
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Easter Bunny
The Harvest
Bob Lakin
Rescued from the Closet
Self
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Heat Miser
The Making of 'Independence Day'
Self
The Sissy Duckling
Elmer (voice)
Everything Relative
The Moyle
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Self - Host
Russian Broadway Shut Down
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Self
Tidy Endings
Arthur
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Self
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Self
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Self
Playing Mona Lisa
Bennett
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Self
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Self (Archive)
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Self
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Self (voice)
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Performer
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Self
MaMa's Pushcart
Three Little Pigs
The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
Self
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
Andrew
Disarm Hate
Narrator
