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Harvey Fierstein

Actor

Harvey Fierstein

Born June 6, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA34 films

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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Filmography

34 films as actor
  1. 2022BrosLouis
  2. 2020Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of BroadwayPerformer
  3. 2020Disarm HateNarrator
  4. 2018Animal CrackersEsmerelda (voice)
  5. 2016Hairspray Live!Edna Turnblad
  6. 2014Russian Broadway Shut Down
  7. 2012Foodfight!Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
  8. 2006The Year Without a Santa ClausHeat Miser
  9. 2004Mulan IIYao (voice)
  10. 2003DuplexKenneth
  11. 2002Death to SmoochyMerv Green
  12. 2000Playing Mona LisaBennett
  13. 2000Common GroundDon
  14. 1999The Sissy DucklingElmer (voice)
  15. 1999Double PlatinumGary Millstein
  16. 1999JumpDish Macense
  17. 1998Safe MenGood Stuff Leo
  18. 1998MulanYao (voice)
  19. 1997Kull the ConquerorJuba
  20. 1997White LiesArt Hoarder
  21. 1997Three Little PigsThe Big Bad Wolf (voice)
  22. 1996Sesame Street: Elmo Saves ChristmasEaster Bunny
  23. 1996Everything RelativeThe Moyle
  24. 1996Independence DayMarty Gilbert
  25. 1995Dr. Jekyll and Ms. HydeYves DuBois
  26. 1994Bullets Over BroadwaySid Loomis
  27. 1993Mrs. DoubtfireFrank
  28. 1993The HarvestBob Lakin
  29. 1991In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS StoryAndrew
  30. 1988Torch Song TrilogyArnold Beckoff
  31. 1988Tidy EndingsArthur
  32. 1986ApologyThe derelict
  33. 1984Garbo TalksBernie Whitlock
  34. 1983The Demon Murder CaseThe Demon (voice)