Harvey Fierstein
Acting
June 6, 1952
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Movies
Mulan
1998
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
Independence Day
1996
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991
Mulan II
2004
Duplex
2003
Tidy Endings
1988
Everything Relative
1996
The Harvest
1993
Foodfight!
2012
Safe Men
1998
Common Ground
2000
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
Jump
1999
Bros
2022
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
Animal Crackers
2017
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
Kull the Conqueror
1997
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
TV Shows
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Simpsons
1989
Family Guy
1999
Family Guy
1999
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Good Wife
2009
How I Met Your Mother
2005
Murder, She Wrote
1984
BoJack Horseman
2014
Saturday Night Live
1975
Miami Vice
1984
Cheers
1982
Tony Awards
1956
Big Mouth
2017
Hercules
1998
Ellen
1994
Intimate Portrait
1993
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
The Larry Sanders Show
1992