Harvey Fierstein

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Acting

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.

Filmography

• Commitment to Life (2023)
• Bros (2022)
• Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway (2020)
• Disarm Hate (2020)
• Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019)
• Kinky Boots: The Musical (2019)
• Funny Girl (2018)
• Animal Crackers (2018)
• The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
• Newsies (2017)
• Hairspray Live! (2016)
• Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire (2015)
• The Wiz Live! (2015)
• The Making of the Wiz Live! (2015)
• Russian Broadway Shut Down (2014)
• Foodfight! (2012)
• ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)
• Words and Music by Jerry Herman (2007)
• The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)
• Farce of the Penguins (2006)
• The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)
• Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005)
• Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde (2004)
• Mulan II (2004)
• Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis (2004)
• Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! (2004)
• Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004)
• Duplex (2003)
• The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series (2003)
• Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary (2002)
• Death to Smoochy (2002)
• Rescued from the Closet (2001)
• One on One with Vito Russo (2001)
• Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
• Common Ground (2000)
• The Sissy Duckling (1999)
• Double Platinum (1999)
• Jump (1999)
• Safe Men (1998)
• Mulan (1998)
• Kull the Conqueror (1997)
• White Lies (1997)
• Three Little Pigs (1997)
• Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)
• Everything Relative (1996)
• Independence Day (1996)
• The Making of 'Independence Day' (1996)
• The Celluloid Closet (1996)
• Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)
• Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
• Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest (1994)
• Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
• The Harvest (1993)
• An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends (1993)
• In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story (1991)
• The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? (1990)
• Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
• Tidy Endings (1988)
• MaMa's Pushcart (1988)
• Apology (1986)
• Garbo Talks (1984)
• The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
• The Demon Murder Case (1983)