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Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein

ActingJune 6, 1952(age 73)Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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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.

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Independence Day

1996·Marty Gilbert

1998·Yao (voice)

1998·Argus Panoptes (voice)

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Filmography (80)

Commitment to Life

2023·Self (archive footage)

Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway

2020·Performer

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Kinky Boots: The Musical

Hairspray Live!

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Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

2019·Self

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

2019·skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)

Animal Crackers

2018·Esmerelda (voice)

2017·Older Guy Town Resident (voice)

Hairspray Live!

2016·Edna Turnblad

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

The Making of the Wiz Live!

Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire

2015·Self (Archive)

Russian Broadway Shut Down

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Trailblazer Honors

2014·Self - Honoree

BoJack Horseman

2014·Harvey Fierstein (voice)

2012·Fat Cat Burglar (voice)

2012·Harvey Fierstein

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009·Self - Guest

2009·Judge Francis Flamm

2009·John Decker

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

Words and Music by Jerry Herman

The Year Without a Santa Claus

2006·Heat Miser

Farce of the Penguins

2006·Sheila (voz)

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

2005·Self - Host

How I Met Your Mother

2005·Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

2004·Self (voice)

2004·Yao (voice)

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

Death to Smoochy

2002·Merv Green

Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary

Rescued from the Closet

Playing Mona Lisa

1999·Dish Macense

Double Platinum

1999·Gary Millstein

The Sissy Duckling

1999·Elmer (voice)

1999·Buster Keaton (voice)

1998·Good Stuff Leo

1998·Yao (voice)

1998·Argus Panoptes (voice)

1997·Art Hoarder

Three Little Pigs

1997·The Big Bad Wolf (voice)

Kull the Conqueror

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

1996·Easter Bunny

Everything Relative

1996·The Moyle

Independence Day

1996·Marty Gilbert

The Celluloid Closet

The Making of 'Independence Day'

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

1995·Yves DuBois

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

1995·Mrs. Leaperman (voice)

Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest

Bullets Over Broadway

1994·Sid Loomis

1994·Dennis Sinclair

1994·Harvey Fierstein

An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends

1993·Bob Lakin

Intimate Portrait

The Larry Sanders Show

1992·Harvey Fierstein

In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

1989·Karl (voice)

Torch Song Trilogy

1988·Arnold Beckoff

MaMa's Pushcart

1986·The derelict

1984·Bernie Whitlock

The Times of Harvey Milk

1984·Narrator (voice)

Murder, She Wrote

1984·Stan Hatter

The Demon Murder Case

1983·The Demon (voice)

1982·Mark Newberger

Saturday Night Live

1975·Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1956·Self - Winner

The Wiz Live!

2015·Writer

The Sissy Duckling

Torch Song Trilogy

1988·Theatre Play

1988·Theatre Play