Harvey Fierstein
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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.
Known for
Credits
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
as Frank
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Mulan (1998)
as Yao (voice)
Independence Day (1996)
as Marty Gilbert
Mulan II (2004)
as Yao (voice)
Duplex (2003)
as Kenneth
Bros (2022)
as Louis
Death to Smoochy (2002)
as Merv Green
Animal Crackers (2018)
as Esmerelda (voice)
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
as Sid Loomis
Safe Men (1998)
as Good Stuff Leo
Kull the Conqueror (1997)
as Juba
Foodfight! (2012)
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Commitment to Life (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)
as Yves DuBois
Farce of the Penguins (2006)
as Sheila (voice)
The Celluloid Closet (1996)
as Self
Hairspray Live! (2016)
as Edna Turnblad
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
as Arnold Beckoff
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005)
as Self - Host
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
as Narrator (voice)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)
as Host
Disarm Hate (2020)
as Narrator
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
as Self (archive)
Rescued from the Closet (2001)
as Self
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary (2002)
as Self
Double Platinum (1999)
as Gary Millstein
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)
as Easter Bunny
The Demon Murder Case (1983)
as The Demon (voice)
The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)
as Heat Miser
Garbo Talks (1984)
as Bernie Whitlock
White Lies (1997)
as Art Hoarder
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series (2003)
as Self
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! (2004)
as Self (uncredited)
Common Ground (2000)
as Don
Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
as Bennett
The Harvest (1993)
as Bob Lakin
The Sissy Duckling (1999)
as Elmer (voice)
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde (2004)
as Self
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis (2004)
as Self
Russian Broadway Shut Down (2014)
Actor
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019)
as Self
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)
as Self
Everything Relative (1996)
as The Moyle
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? (1990)
as Self
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest (1994)
as Self
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004)
as Self (voice)
Apology (1986)
as The derelict
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends (1993)
as Self
The Making of 'Independence Day' (1996)
as Self
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway (2020)
as Performer
Tidy Endings (1988)
as Arthur
Three Little Pigs (1997)
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
The Making of the Wiz Live! (2015)
as Self
Jump (1999)
as Dish Macense
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story (1991)
as Andrew
One on One with Vito Russo (2001)
as Self (archive)
Words and Music by Jerry Herman (2007)
as Self
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire (2015)
as Self (Archive)
MaMa's Pushcart (1988)
Actor