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Harvey Fierstein

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1952-06-06 (Age: 74)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Harvey Fierstein

Biography

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 (56)

⭐ 0 Role: Self (archive footage)

Commitment to Life

2023
⭐ 6.7 Role: Louis

Bros

2022
⭐ 0 Role: Performer

Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway

2020
⭐ 1.0 Role: Narrator

Disarm Hate

2020
⭐ 6.5 Role: Self

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

2019
⭐ 6.3 Role: Esmerelda (voice)

Animal Crackers

2018
⭐ 7.3 Role: Edna Turnblad

Hairspray Live!

2016
⭐ 0 Role: Self (Archive)

Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire

2015
⭐ 0 Role: Self

The Making of the Wiz Live!

2015
⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Russian Broadway Shut Down

2014
⭐ 2.0 Role: Fat Cat Burglar (voice)

Foodfight!

2012
⭐ 7.2 Role: Self

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

2007
⭐ 0 Role: Self

Words and Music by Jerry Herman

2007
⭐ 5.8 Role: Heat Miser

The Year Without a Santa Claus

2006
⭐ 4.2 Role: Sheila (voz)

Farce of the Penguins

2006